Michael Atiyah

37.8k total citations · 13 hit papers
169 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Atiyah is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Atiyah has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Geometry and Topology, 59 papers in Mathematical Physics and 30 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Michael Atiyah's work include Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (23 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (19 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (17 papers). Michael Atiyah is often cited by papers focused on Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (23 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (19 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (17 papers). Michael Atiyah collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Slovakia. Michael Atiyah's co-authors include I. M. Singer, R. Bott, Nigel Hitchin, V. K. Patodi, Raoul Bott, Graeme Segal, Yu. I. Manin, Vladimir Drinfeld, R. S. Ward and Friedrich Hirzebruch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Atiyah

155 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

Spectral asymmetry and Riemannian Geometry. I 1964 2026 1984 2005 1975 1983 1978 1978 1968 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Atiyah United Kingdom 58 9.0k 8.3k 4.3k 3.4k 3.2k 169 17.0k
I. M. Singer United States 41 5.0k 0.6× 3.8k 0.5× 4.1k 0.9× 2.7k 0.8× 1.8k 0.6× 64 11.2k
Vladimir I. Arnold Russia 48 3.1k 0.3× 4.1k 0.5× 1000 0.2× 2.3k 0.7× 825 0.3× 200 13.0k
Victor Guillemin United States 40 4.3k 0.5× 3.9k 0.5× 422 0.1× 2.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 174 7.8k
I. M. Gel'fand Russia 40 2.4k 0.3× 2.6k 0.3× 578 0.1× 1.1k 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 152 6.5k
Shing‐Tung Yau United States 58 2.7k 0.3× 7.7k 0.9× 2.1k 0.5× 7.2k 2.1× 242 0.1× 325 12.9k
Wilhelm Magnus United States 20 1.8k 0.2× 1.8k 0.2× 680 0.2× 1.2k 0.3× 735 0.2× 42 8.0k
Sigurđur Helgason United States 24 3.2k 0.4× 2.2k 0.3× 320 0.1× 2.7k 0.8× 887 0.3× 60 6.0k
John C. Baez United States 30 1.2k 0.1× 1.0k 0.1× 2.0k 0.5× 789 0.2× 659 0.2× 104 4.4k
J. Patera Canada 32 1.1k 0.1× 1.4k 0.2× 845 0.2× 522 0.2× 1.3k 0.4× 204 4.1k
Shlomo Sternberg United States 26 1.7k 0.2× 1.6k 0.2× 444 0.1× 691 0.2× 743 0.2× 70 3.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Atiyah, Michael. (2006). Benjamin Franklin and the Edinburgh Enlightenment1. 150(4). 591. 2 indexed citations
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Bundy, Alan, Michael Atiyah, Angus Macintyre, & Donald Mackenzie. (2005). The Nature of Mathematical Proof. 363(1835). 8 indexed citations
3.
Atiyah, Michael. (2004). Michael Atiyah collected works. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (2002). The millennium prize promblems : Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Meeting, Collège de France, Paris, May 24-25, 2000. Springer eBooks.
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Atiyah, Michael. (1999). Sir Michael Atiyah : a great mathematician of the twentieth century. 16 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael, et al.. (1998). Idempotency. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations
7.
Atiyah, Michael. (1996). The United Kingdom's policy for nuclear deterrence. The RUSI Journal. 141(6). 13–16. 1 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (1992). Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, given at the Anniversary meeting on 29 November 1991. Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 46(1). 155–169. 3 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (1990). The Jones-Witten invariants of knots. Astérisque. 32. 7–16. 6 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael & Nigel Hitchin. (1985). Low-energy scattering of non-Abelian magnetic monopoles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 315(1533). 459–469. 48 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael & Raoul Bott. (1983). The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 308(1505). 523–615. 998 indexed citations breakdown →
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Atiyah, Michael. (1982). What is Geometry? The 1982 Presidential Address. The Mathematical Gazette. 66(437). 179–184. 2 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael, Nigel Hitchin, & I. M. Singer. (1978). Self-duality in four-dimensional Riemannian geometry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 362(1711). 425–461. 809 indexed citations breakdown →
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Atiyah, Michael. (1976). Bakerian Lecture, 1975: Global geometry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 347(1650). 291–299. 10 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael, V. K. Patodi, & I. M. Singer. (1975). Spectral asymmetry and Riemannian Geometry. I. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 77(1). 43–69. 1084 indexed citations breakdown →
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Atiyah, Michael. (1974). The heat equation in riemannian geometry. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 16. 1–11. 2 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (1968). Hyperbolic differential equations and algebraic geometry. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 10. 87–99. 1 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (1964). The index of elliptic operators on compact manifolds. Project Euclid (Cornell University). 8. 159–169. 1 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (1958). On analytic surfaces with double points. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 247(1249). 237–244. 65 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael. (1957). Complex analytic connections in fibre bundles. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 85(1). 181–207. 402 indexed citations

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