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Sir William Hodge
British mathematician
Quick Facts
- In full:
- William Vallance Douglas Hodge
- Awards And Honors:
- Copley Medal (1974)
- Notable Works:
- “Theory and Application of Harmonic Integrals”
- Subjects Of Study:
- Hodge conjecture
Sir William Hodge (born June 17, 1903, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1975, Cambridge, England) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry and his formulation of the Hodge conjecture. Hodge graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in mathematics in 1923. He went on to further studies in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and in 1926 he became an assistant lecturer in mathematics at the University of Bristol. He received a fellowship to Cambridge in 1930, and in 1931 he was invited to Princeton University for a year, where he worked closely with Solomon ...(100 of 248 words)