Alan Frank Beardon Explained

Alan Frank Beardon
Birth Date:	16 April 1940
Nationality:	British
Thesis Title:	On the Hausdorff dimension of certain sets
Thesis Year:	PhD, 1964
Doctoral Advisor:	Walter Kurt Hayman
Doctoral Students:	Samuel James Patterson
Prizes:	Lester R. Ford Award^[1] (1997) G. de B. Robinson Award^[2] (2017)
Field:	Algebraic Geometry
Work Institution:	University of Cambridge

Alan Frank Beardon (April 16, 1940) is a British mathematician.

Education and career

Beardon obtained his doctorate at Imperial College London in 1964, supervised by Walter Hayman.^[3] In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, with promotions to readership and professorship until his retirement in 2007. He is an emeritus fellow of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge.^[4] ^[5]

Creative Mathematics - The Gateway to Research, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Algebra and Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Limits: A New Approach to Real Analysis, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1997
The geometry of discrete groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1983, 1995
Iteration of rational functions. Complex analytical dynamical systems, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1991
A Primer on Riemann Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, 1984
Complex analysis: the argument principle in analysis and topology, Wiley, 1979