Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer is at the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in
Cambridge and has previously been Master of St. Catherine’s College
and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University.
Swinnerton-Dyer has made important contributions within number theory and arithmetic
algebraic geometry.
Particularly important is his work on elliptic curves – an area with Norwegian
traditions going all the way back to Abel.
The Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture is one of the most famous problems in mathematics today,
and is among the seven socalled millenium problems.
Swinnerton-Dyer has also given substantial contributions within the theory of ordinary
differential equations.
