W. V. D. Hodge
Mathematician, Academic
1903 – 1975
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Who was W. V. D. Hodge?
William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS was a Scottish mathematician, specifically a geometer.
His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry.
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- Born
- Jun 17, 1903
Edinburgh - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Died
- Jul 7, 1975
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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