Celebratio Mathematica

Michael F. Atiyah

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Michael Francis Atiyah

Photo courtesy of Rob Kirby.
Michael Atiyah's 60th birthday cake, with an equation in red frosting. The left side of the equation is the index of a differential operator D. The right side is the Chern character of the symbol $\sigma$ of D multiplied by the Todd class of X, evaluated on X.