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British algebraic geometers

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Frances Kirwan

Frances Kirwan is a British mathematician at Oxford known for the Kirwan map and cohomology of quotients; she was Savilian Professor of Geometry from 2017 to 2024.

Holly Krieger

Holly Krieger is an American mathematician, Professor at the University of Cambridge since 2022, known for arithmetic dynamics, work on the Mandelbrot set, and Numberphile videos.

J. A. Todd

J. A. Todd, full name John Arthur Todd (1908–1994), was an English mathematician at Cambridge known for the Todd genus, Todd class, and Todd–Coxeter algorithm.

James McKernan

James McKernan, born in London in 1964, is a British algebraic geometer at UC San Diego known for proving the existence of flips in all dimensions.

Miles Reid

Miles Reid, born 1948, is a British algebraic geometer at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the Royal Society who laid the foundations of the minimal model program for 3-folds.

Patrick du Val

Patrick du Val (1903–1987) was a British mathematician who worked on algebraic surfaces and classified the surface singularities now known as du Val singularities in 1934.

Richard Thomas (mathematician)

Richard Thomas is a British algebraic geometer at Imperial College London, best known as co-inventor, with his supervisor Simon Donaldson, of the Donaldson–Thomas invariants of Calabi–Yau threefolds.

Robin Hartshorne

Robin Hartshorne (born 1938) is an American algebraic geometer, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, and author of Algebraic Geometry (1977), the standard graduate introduction to schemes and cohomology.