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Minhyong Kim

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Minhyong Kim
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materSeoul National University (B.S., 1986)
Yale University (Ph.D., 1991)
Known forArithmetical Algebraic Geometry
AwardsHo-Am Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Doctoral advisorSerge Lang, Barry Mazur
Doctoral studentsSusan H. Marshall
Korean name
Hangul
김민형
Revised RomanizationGim Minhyeong
McCune–ReischauerKim Minhyǒng

Minhyong Kim is a South Korean mathematician who specialises in arithmetic geometry and anabelian geometry.

Biography[edit]

Kim received his PhD at Yale University in 1990 under the supervision of Serge Lang and Barry Mazur, going on to work in a number of universities, including M.I.T., Columbia, Arizona, Purdue, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, UCL (University College London), the University of Oxford, where he was Head of the Number Theory Research Group, and the University of Warwick, where he was the Christopher Zeeman Professor of Algebra, Geometry, and the Public Understanding of Mathematics. He is currently the Director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the Maxwell Institute, the joint graduate school of the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

Research[edit]

Kim has made contributions to the application of arithmetic homotopy theory to the study of Diophantine problems, especially to finiteness theorems of the FaltingsSiegel type.

His work was featured in 2017 in the Quanta Magazine, where he described his work as being inspired by physics.[1]

Awards[edit]

In 2012, Minhyong Kim received the Ho-Am Prize for Science,[2] with the Ho-Am committee citing him as "one of the leading researchers in the area of arithmetic algebraic geometry". He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows.[3]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kevin Hartnett (1 December 2017). "Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics".
  2. ^ "Past Ho-Am Prizes". Ho-Am Foundation. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  3. ^ "2024 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-11-09.