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Michael Atiyah worked in Topology and Geometry and was best known for his work on K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem.

Michael Francis Atiyah was born in London on 22nd April His father, Edward Atiyah, was Lebanese with an Oxford education.

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in primarily for his work in topology.

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry.

Michael Atiyah was born in London on 22 April His father Edward, from a Lebanese family, was working in the political service in the Sudan at the time.

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in primarily for his work in topology.!

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Quick facts for kids Sir Michael Atiyah OMFRS FRSE FMedSci FREng
Michael Atiyah in 2007
Born	Michael Francis Atiyah (1929-04-22)22 April 1929 Hampstead, London, England
Died	11 January 2019(2019-01-11) (aged 89) Edinburgh, Scotland
Education
Known for	Atiyah algebroid Atiyah conjecture Atiyah conjecture on configurations Atiyah flop Atiyah–Bott formula Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem Atiyah–Floer conjecture Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence Atiyah–Jones conjecture Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem Atiyah–Singer index theorem Atiyah–Segal completion theorem ADHM construction Fredholm module Eta invariant K-theory KR-theory Pin group Toric manifold
Awards
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions
Thesis	Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry(1955)
Doctoral advisor	W. V. D. Hodge
Doctoral students
Other notable students	Edward Witten

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