Sir William Hodge

Sir William Hodge (born June 17, 1903, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1975, Cambridge, England) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry and his formulation of the Hodge conjecture. Hodge graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in mathematics in 1923. He went on to further studies in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and in 1926 he became an assistant lecturer in mathematics at the University of Bristol. He...