Collected works vol.1. Early Papers. General Papers

Atiyah M. Collected works vol.1.Early Papers: General Papers  ......Page 4
Copyright ......Page 5
PREFACE ......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......Page 8
CURRICULUM VITAE ......Page 11
CONTENTS......Page 12
Commentary 1......Page 23
1.A note on the tangents of a twisted cubic. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 48 (1952), 204—5. 3......Page 25
2.Complex fibre bundles and ruled surfaces. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. V(1955), 407—34. 7......Page 29
3.(with W. V. D. Hodge) Formes de seconde espece sur une variete algebrique. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris239 (1954), 1333—5. 37......Page 59
4.(with W. V. D. Hodge) Integrals of the second kind on an algebraic variety. Ann. of Math. 62 (1955), 56-91. 43......Page 65
5.On the Krull—Schmidt theorem with application to sheaves. Bull. Soc. Math. France 84 (1956), 307-17. 81......Page 103
6.Complex analytic connections in fibre bundles. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 85 (1957), 181-207. 95......Page 117
7.Vector bundles over an elliptic curve. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 17/(1957), 414—52. 103......Page 125
8.On analytic surfaces with double points. Proc. R. Soc. A, 247 (1958), 237—44. 145......Page 167
9.Some examples of complex manifolds. Bonner Mathematische Schriften Nr. 6 (1958). 155......Page 177
Commentary 185......Page 207
10.The role of algebraic topology in mathematics. J. Lond. Math. Soc. 41 (1966), 63—9. 189......Page 211
11.Wandel und Fortschritt in der Mathematik, Bild der Wissenschaft 4, Deutschen Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (1969), 315—23. 199......Page 221
12.How research is carried out. Bull. IMA 10 (1974), 232—4. 211......Page 233
13.Global geometry. Bakerian Lecture, 1975. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 347 (1976), 291—9. 217......Page 239
14.William Vallance Douglas Hodge 1903—1975. Biog. Mem. Fellows Roy. Soc. Lond. 22 (1976), 169-92. 229......Page 251
15.Singularities of Functions. LMS/IMA Conference on ‘Excitement in mathematics’, Cambridge, 1975, Bull. IMA 12 (1976), 203-6. 255......Page 277
16.Trends in Pure Mathematics. Proc. 3rd Int. Congress on Math. Education, Karlsruhe 1976. 3rd ICME Proc. (1977) 71-4. 261......Page 283
17.The Unity of Mathematics. Bull. Land. Math. Soc. 10 (1978), 69—76. 277......Page 299
18.What is geometry? (Presidential address). The Mathematical Gazette, 66, (No. 437) (1982), 179-84. 287......Page 309
19.An interview with Michael Atiyah. The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 6, (No. 1) (1984), 9-19. 295......Page 317
20.Speech on conferment of Feltrinelli Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1984), 183-8. 309......Page 331
21.Geometry and analysis in the nineteen eighties. Coll. for the 25th anniversary, IHES (1984). 317......Page 339
b) The Influence of Computers and Informatics on Mathematics and its Teaching. Cambridge University Press (1986) 43—51. 327......Page 349
a)Nuova Civilta delle Macchine II (No. 3) (1984), 27—32.......Page 
23.Identifying progress in mathematics. ESFConference in Colmar. Cambridge University Press (1985), 24-41. 349......Page 371
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