Celebratio Mathematica

Sir Mi­chael Atiyah, a hugely in­flu­en­tial fig­ure in math­em­at­ics, died on Janu­ary 11, 2019. A trib­ute ap­peared in the Novem­ber 2019 is­sue of the No­tices, but what fol­lows is a col­lec­tion of more per­son­al re­col­lec­tions — what it was like to be his stu­dent, to work along­side him, to have av­en­ues of ex­plor­a­tion poin­ted out, or to be in­spired and en­er­gized by his unique per­son­al­ity. The con­tri­bu­tions cov­er a full fifty years in which his in­terests moved from math­em­at­ics to in­cur­sions in­to phys­ics. They are ar­ranged in chro­no­lo­gic­al or­der.

To read the full art­icle “Memor­ies of Sir Mi­chael Atiyah” from the Decem­ber 2019 is­sue of the No­tices, click on the link to the PDF at the up­per right of this page.