Michael Atiyah - My artistic mother (5/93)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · People & Blogs
To listen to more of Michael Atiyah’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzjttuP9WTFDzu0oAOJBM_3 British mathematician Michael Atiyah (1929-2019) studied in Cambridge where he became a Fellow of Trinity College and later held professorships at Princeton and Oxford. He is best known for his work on the K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem. [Listener: Nigel Hitchin; date recorded: 1997] TRANSCRIPT: Well, my mother, as I say, her father died when she was quite young, so she tended to live with her mother and her brother. My uncle became a classics don at Oxford, and it was through him that my mother met my father, because they lived in Oxford. And she had studied drawing – she went to the Ruskin School – drawing… and quite talented artistically… and did a fair amount of work later on, not on a major scale, but for people locally in Khartoum and [so] on. She was, I think, very disappointed that her children didn't seem to inherit her artistic talents, but so she was… her interests were very much on the arts side.
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