Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Bart. KBE FRS

Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet KBE FRS (2 August 1927 – 26 December 2018) was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.

• From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Swinnerton-Dyer, accessed 31 December 2018.
  

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Sir Peter was a member of the World Bridge Federation - see www.worldbridge.org ... his profile can be found here: http://www.worldbridge.org/people-finder/ by searching for his name. From Anna Gudge