Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

Who is Peter Swinnerton-Dyer?

Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet KBE FRS, commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician specialising in number theory at University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he is best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.