Miles Reid

Reid studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne.[1]

Reid was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978. He became a lecturer at the University of Warwick in 1978 and was appointed professor there in 1992. He has written two well known books: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry and Undergraduate Commutative Algebra.

Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Aleksandr Pukhlikov, "Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces", which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.[3]

Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given lectures in Japanese.

His most famous book is

• Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Cambridge University Press 1988 (ISBN 978-0521356626) doi:10.1017/CBO9781139163699

Other books

• Undergraduate commutative algebra, Cambridge University Press 1995, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139172721
• with Balazs Szendroi: Geometry and topology, Cambridge University Press 2007

His most famous translation is the two volume work by Shafarevich

• Basic Algebraic Geometry 1 (ISBN 978-3642379550)
• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2 (ISBN 978-3642380099)