Patrick S. Atiyah Queen s Counsel QC Fellow of the British Academy FBA born March 5, 1931 is an England English lawyer and academic . He is best known for his work as a common lawyer, particularly in the law of contract and for advocating reformation or abolition of the law of tort . He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1979. Biography Atiyah is a son of the Lebanon Lebanese writer Edward Atiyah and his Scotland Scottish wife Jean. The well known mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah is his brother. ref http www.atiyah.plus.com family.htm Family Bot generated title ref Atiyah was professor of law at the Australian National University 1970 1973 , at the University of Warwick 1973 1977 and professor of English law at the University of Oxford 1977 1988 . Bibliography Books Atiyah s Accidents, Compensation and the Law 1970 , now 2006 and updated by Peter Cane The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract 1979 Oxford University Press Promises, Morals, and Law 1983 Oxford University Press Form and Substance in Anglo American Law 1987 . An Introduction to the Law of Contract 1995 5th Ed. Clarendon Law Series, now updated by Stephen Smith. The Damages Lottery 1997 Hart Publishing. Articles Economic Duress and the Overborne Will 1982 98 LQR 197. Atiyah argued that it was wrong to use the phrase coercion of the will in the test for duress . Duress does not eliminate free choice, it just creates a choice between evils. What is wrong about a contract is not an absence of consent, but the wrongful nature of the threats used to bring about consent. See also Tort reform Notes Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Atiyah, Patrick S. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Atiyah, Patrick S. Category 1931 births Category Living people Category British Queen s Counsel Category English barristers Category Fellows of the British Academy Category British legal writers Category Australian National University ... more details
Atiyah is the surname of several notable people including Sir Michael Atiyah , English mathematician PatrickAtiyah , English barrister and legal writer, brother of Michael Edward Atiyah , Lebanese born writer, father of Michael The name Atiyah also occurs as a given name and may refer to Atiyah Abd Al Rahman , a Libyan purported to be a member of al Qaeda and related militant groups disambig ... more details
thumb right Trinity Great Court Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge , where Atiyah was a student and later Master of Trinity College, Cambridge Master Atiyah was born in Hampstead , London , to Lebanon Lebanese writer Edward Atiyah and Scot Jean Atiyah n e Levens . PatrickAtiyah , professor ...Infobox scientist name Sir Michael Atiyah image Michael Francis Atiyah.jpg image width 275px caption ... Abel Prize 2004 footnotes Sir Michael Francis Atiyah , Order of Merit Commonwealth OM , Fellow of the Royal ... 2005 2008 . He is currently retired, and is an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh . Atiyah ... speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be twisted. His best known result, the Atiyah ... last Atiyah url http www.atiyah.plus.com family.htm title The Atiyah Family accessdate 2008 08 14 year ... College, Cambridge 1949 1955 . ref name cv1 harvnb Atiyah 1988a p xi ref He was a doctoral ... Image IAS Princeton.jpg thumb left The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Atiyah was professor from 1969 to 1972 Atiyah married Lily Brown on 30 July 1955, with whom he has three sons. ref ... my father realised that I would be a mathematician some day. source Michael Atiyah ref citation ... 67555 title Maths guru with Einstein s dream prefers chalk to mouse. Interview with Atiyah. accessdate 2008 08 14 publisher Delhi newsline ref Atiyah has been active on the international scene, for instance ... cv2 harvnb Atiyah 2004 p ix ref He also contributed to the foundation of the InterAcademy Panel ... Society EMS . ref citation url http www.ams.org notices 200406 comm abel.pdf title Atiyah and Singer ... of Leicester 1995 2005 , ref name cv2 harvnb Atiyah 2004a p ix ref and president of the Royal ... The Mathematical Institute in Oxford , where Atiyah supervised many of his students Atiyah ... on the Atiyah Bott fixed point theorem and many other topics, with Isadore M. Singer on the Atiyah Singer index theorem , and with Friedrich Hirzebruch on topological K theory, ref harvnb Atiyah 2004 ... more details
Edward Selim Atiyah Arabic 1903 1964 was a Lebanon Lebanese author and political activist . He is best known for his 1946 autobiography An Arab Tells His Story , and his 1955 book The Arabs . He came to England to study at Brasenose College , Oxford University , ref Elie Kedourie 1974 p.86 ref and there met and married a Scotland Scottish woman, Jean Levens. They had four children, including the renowned mathematician, Michael Francis Atiyah Sir Michael Atiyah and PatrickAtiyah , an academic and professor of law. http www.atiyah.plus.com family.htm He served as secretary of the Arab League office in London. Controversy One quote from his 1955 book, The Arabs , is widely quoted in whole or in part blockquote This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic Arabic press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could only be a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to re enter and retake possession of their country. But it was also, and in many parts of the country, largely due to a policy of deliberate terrorism and eviction followed by the Jewish commanders in the areas they occupied, and reaching its peak of brutality in the massacre of Deir Yassin . p. 183 blockquote br Part of the above quote has often been used as a evidence of Arab responsibility for the Palestinian exodus in 1948. ref name Bard2008 cite book author Mitchell G. Bard title The Complete Idiot s Guide to Middle East Conflict url http books.google.com books?id YXidxk dI5EC&pg PA147 accessdate 5 March 2011 date 2 September 2008 publisher ..., Edward Atiyah came forward to dismiss this interpretation. In an letter in The Spectator of 23 June ... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Atiyah, Edward ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Atiyah, Edward Category ... more details
In 1976 Michael Atiyah introduced L2 cohomology L sup 2 sup cohomology , using von Neumann algebras to define the L sup 2 sup Betti numbers of manifold s with non trivial fundamental group . A priori the L sup 2 sup Betti numbers are real numbers . Atiyah asked if it is possible for these numbers to be irrational numbers irrational . Nevertheless, the rationality of the L sup 2 sup Betti numbers became known as the Atiyah Conjecture . In 2009 Tim Austin constructed examples of manifolds with transcendental numbers transcendental L sup 2 sup Betti numbers, answering in the affirmative the original Atiyah question. References Cite book publisher Soc. Math. France pages 43 72. Asté risque, No. 32 33 last Atiyah first M. F title Colloque Analyse et Topologie en l Honneur de Henri Cartan Orsay, 1974 chapter Elliptic operators, discrete groups and von Neumann algebras location Paris year 1976 Cite arxiv last Austin first Tim title Rational group ring elements with kernels having irrational dimension date 2009 09 12 eprint 0909.2360 Category Conjectures Category Cohomology theories Category Differential geometry Category Differential topology topology stub ... more details
primarysources date March 2010 Atiyah s Accidents, Compensation and the Law 2006 is a legal text, which marked the first of Cambridge University Press s Law in Context series. It was originally authored by English legal scholar, PatrickAtiyah in 1970 and has been taken over by Professor Peter Cane since the 4th edition in 1987. The thrust of the book is that the law of tort should be abolished, especially as relates to the law on personal injuries, and should be replaced with a no fault state compensation system. Its arguments are in tune with the establishment in the 1970s of such a system in New Zealand , with the Accidents Compensation Commission . After handing over the book, Atiyah changed his mind, and wrote The Damages Lottery 1997 where instead of a state run system, he advocated abolition of tort and that people should buy personal safety insurance. Professor Cane, however has kept Atiyah s Accidents in line with the title s original thesis. Criticism of the fault principle One of the book s main point is its stinging criticism of the fault principle . This is the principle that finds the party that is to blame before compensating the victim in personal injury cases. This then implies that if fault cannot be attributed, there can be no attribution of liability, and thus a victim of an accident may not receive compensation. Atiyah proposed six major criticisms of the system, which suggest that liability in personal injury claims should not focus on the relationship between the claimant and defendant , but between the parties and society. His examples were primarily ... being morally culpable and vice versa. Atiyah pointed out that if the focus of the fault principle ... attention to the conduct or needs of the Claimant. Atiyah was concerned that finding a liable defendant ... else was also partly to blame. Justice may require payment of compensation without fault. Atiyah ... evidence that has been demonstrated to be unreliable. Atiyah was concerned that if the court finds ... more details
Infobox Person name Atiyah Abd Al Rahman image Atiyah Abd al Rahman 1.jpg image size 150x203px caption Senior al Qaeda suspect br US State Dept. photo birth date c. 1970 birth place Libya death date October 7, 2010 death place Pakistan occupation Atiyah Abd Al Rahman lang ar died October, 2010 was purported by the United States Department of State US State Department ref name rfjAtiyah http www.rewardsforjustice.net english index.cfm?page atiyah abd Wanted poster on Atiyah , Rewards for Justice Program , US Department of State ref to be a senior member of al Qaeda and a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Ansar al Sunna . His name may be rendered in English as Atiyah Abdur rahman or Atiyah Abdul Rahman or in other ways. He is thought ref name sameAtiyah http www.washingtonpost.com wp dyn content article 2006 10 01 AR2006100101083.html?nav rss world mideast iraq Washington Post article on the Atiyah to Zarqawi letter ref to be the Atiyah who wrote a commanding letter ref name AtiyahLetter http www.ctc.usma.edu harmony CTC AtiyahLetter.pdf Atiyah letter to Zarqawi , English translation by United States Military Academy ref to Abu Musab al Zarqawi in December 2005. The State Department announcement says that Abd Al Rahman Is a Libya n in his late 30s which puts his date of birth roughly at 1970 . Is based in Iran , representing al Qaeda to other Islamist terrorist groups. Was appointed to that role by Osama bin Laden . Met bin Laden while still in his teens. Fled the Republic of the Congo alongside bin Laden as recently as 2001. The State Department offered up to USD US 1 million for information about him. ref name rfjAtiyah On October 7, 2010, Al Rahman was killed in a CIA Drone attacks in Pakistan drone attack in North Waziristan . ref http www.deccanherald.com ... West Pakistan References Reflist Persondata NAME Abdul Rahman, Atiyah PLACE OF BIRTH Libya DATE OF DEATH N A PLACE OF DEATH N A DEFAULTSORT Abdul Rahman, Atiyah Category Libyan al Qaeda members ... more details
In mathematics , the Atiyah Hirzebruch spectral sequence is a spectral sequence for calculating generalized cohomology , introduced by harvtxt Atiyah Hirzebruch 1961 in the special case of K theory . For a CW complex X , it relates the generalized cohomology groups h sup i sup X with ordinary cohomology group s H sup j sup with coefficients in the generalized cohomology of a point. More precisely, the E sub 2 sub term of the spectral sequence is H sup j sup X , h sub j sub point , and the spectral sequence converges conditionally to h sup i j sup X . Atiyah and Hirzebruch pointed out a generalization of their spectral sequence that also generalizes the Serre spectral sequence , and reduces to it in the case where h H . It can be derived from an Spectral sequence Exact couples exact couple that gives the E sub 1 sub page of the Serre spectral sequence, except with the ordinary cohomology groups replaced with h . In detail, assume X to be the total space of a Serre fibration with fibre F and base space B . The filtration algebra filtration of B by its n skeleton n skeletons gives rise to a filtration of X . There is a corresponding spectral sequence with E sub 2 sub term H sup p sup B h sup q sup F and abutting to h sup p q sup X . This is the Atiyah Hirzebruch spectral sequence in the case where the fibre F is a point. References Citation last1 Atiyah first1 Michael Francis author1 link Michael Atiyah last2 Hirzebruch first2 Friedrich author2 link Friedrich Hirzebruch title Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Vol. III url http books.google.com books?id 4hE7AAAAIAAJ&pg PA197 publisher American Mathematical Society location Providence, R.I. id MR 0139181 year 1961 chapter Vector bundles and homogeneous spaces pages 7 38 Category Spectral sequences Category K theory ... more details
The Atiyah Segal completion theorem is a theorem in mathematics about equivariant K theory in homotopy theory . Let G be a compact group compact Lie group and let X be a G CW complex . The theorem then states that the projection map math pi colon X times EG to X math induces an isomorphism of profinite group prorings math pi colon K G X hat I to K G X times EG math . Here, the induced map has as Domain of a function domain the completion ring theory completion of the G equivariant K theory of X with respect to I , where I denotes the augmentation ideal of the representation ring of G . In the special case of X a point, the theorem specializes to give an isomorphism math K BG cong R G hat I math between the K theory of the classifying space of G and the completion of the representation ring. The theorem can be interpreted as giving a comparison between the geometrical process of completing a G space by making the group action action free and the algebraic process of completing with respect to an ideal. ref name Greenlees cite conference author Greenlees, J.P.C. year 1996 title An introduction to equivariant K theory. conference Equivariant homotopy and cohomology theory booktitle CBMS Regional Conference Series volume 91 pages 143 152 publisher Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, DC url conferenceurl ref The theorem was first proved for finite groups by Michael Atiyah in 1961, ref name Atiyah1961 cite journal last Atiyah first M.F. authorlink Michael Atiyah year 1961 title Characters and cohomology of finite groups volume 9 issue 1 pages 23 64 url http www.springerlink.com index 3228267279648852.pdf accessdate 2008 06 19 ref and a proof of the general case was published by Atiyah together with Graeme Segal in 1969. ref name Atiyah1969 cite journal last1 Atiyah first1 M.F. author1 link Michael Atiyah last2 Segal first2 G.B. author2 ... title A generalization of the Atiyah Segal Completion Theorem journal Topology volume 27 issue 1 pages ... more details
In differential geometry , the Atiyah Singer index theorem , proved by harvs txt author1 link Michael Atiyah first1 Michael last1 Atiyah author2 link Isadore Singer first2 Isadore last2 Singer year 1963 ... genus of a spin manifold, and Atiyah suggested that this integrality could be explained if it were the index of the Dirac operator which was rediscovered by Atiyah and Singer in 1961 . The Atiyah Singer theorem was announced by harvtxt Atiyah Singer 1963 . The proof sketched in this announcement was never ... harv Atiyah Singer 1968a replaced the cobordism theory of the first proof with K theory , and they used this to give proofs of various generalizations in the papers harvs txt last Atiyah last2 Singer .... In 1969, M.F. Atiyah harv Atiyah 1970 defines abstract elliptic operators on arbitrary metric spaces ... on the realization of the K homology by abstract elliptic operators. harvs txt yes last Atiyah author2 ... Z . This index is independent of the embedding of X in Euclidean space. The Atiyah Singer ... only the symbol s and topological data derived from the manifold and the vector bundle. The Atiyah Singer ... that it is also integral. So the Atiyah Singer index theorem implies some deep integrality properties ... dimensions. Extensions of the Atiyah Singer index theorem Teleman index theorem harv Teleman 1983 , harv Teleman 1984 For any abstract elliptic operator harv Atiyah 1970 on a closed, oriented, topological ... manifolds harv Teleman 1980 , harv Teleman 1983 , the extension of Atiyah Singer s signature operator ... manifold X of dimension 4 k is given by the L genus of the manifold. This follows from the Atiyah Singer ... it on these particularly simple cases. K theory Atiyah and Singer s first published proof ... theorem to the case of a point, when it is trivial. Heat equation harvs txt yes last Atiyah author2 ... positive t , which can be used to evaluate the limit as t tends to 0, giving a proof of the Atiyah ... The Atiyah Singer theorem applies to elliptic pseudodifferential operator s in much the same way ... more details
otheruses Jarir disambiguation Jarir ibn Atiyah al Khatfi Al Tamimi Al Najdi lang ar ca. 650 &ndash ca. 728 was an Arab poet and satirist . He was born in the reign of the caliph Othman , and was a member of the tribe Kulaib , a part of the Banu Tamim . He was a native of al Yamamah , but also spent time in Damascus at the court of the Umayyad caliphs . Little is known of his early life, but he succeeded in winning the favor of Al Hajjaj bin Yousef , the governor of Iraq. Already famous for his verse, he became more widely known by his feud with rival poets Farazdaq and Akhtal . Later he went to Damascus and visited the court of the caliph Abd al Malik ibn Marwan Abd al Malik and that of his successor, Al Walid I . From neither of these did he receive a warm welcome. He was, however, more successful with Umar II , and was the only poet received by the pious caliph. His verse, like that of his contemporaries, is largely satire and eulogy . References 1911 article Jarir ibn Attyya ul Khatfi url http encyclopedia.jrank.org INV JED JARIR IBN.html DEFAULTSORT Jarir ibn Atiyah Category Tabi un Category Arabic poets Category Medieval writers Category Umayyad era poets Category 650 births Category 728 deaths ar bn hu Dzsar r ibn Atijja ro Djarir ibn Atiyah ... more details
Infobox Patriarch name Ignatius III Atiyah image church Melkite Church see Patriarch of Antioch patriarch of List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarch of Antioch enthroned 24 April 1619 ended 1634 predecessor Athanasius II Dabbas successor Euthymius II Karmah Patriarch Ignatius III Atiyah died 1634 was Melkite Patriarch of Antioch from 1619 to 1634. The first years of his patriarchate were marked by the split of the Melkite Church in two factions, a situation that lasted till the Synod of Ras Baalbek Synod of Ras Baalbek held in 1628 which confirmed Ignatius Atiyah as the only Patriarch and ruled about the independence of the Melchite Church. anchor Cyril IV Dabbas Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas After the death of Athanasius II Dabbas , the Melkite Church split between two claiming Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, who both were consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619 but in different places. ref name Raheb cite book last Raheb first Abdallah title Conception of the Union in the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch 1622 1672 year 1981 location Beirut url http www.zoukmikael.com churches stgeorge biblio CONCEPTION 20OF 20THE 20UNION.pdf accessdate 2010 09 25 ref rp 20 Ignatius Atiyah started his career as secretary of the Emir Fakhr al Din II and in 1605 he became Metropolitan bishop metropolitan of Sidon Saida . The Christian people of Damascus ... , were faithful to Ignatius Atiyah. This split of the Church not only created discord, but also ... to renounce to the throne in change to a eparchy . The synod proclaimed Ignatius III Atiyah as the only ... name Nasrallah Last years After the 1638 Synod of Ras Baalbek, Ignatius III Atiyah went on reigning ..., and Ignatius Atiyah, now without political protection, had to escape from Beirut to Saida. When ... 2 Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Atiyah, Ignatius III ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Melkite Patriarch of Antioch DATE OF DEATH 1634 DEFAULTSORT Atiyah, Ignatius III Category ... more details
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In mathematics , the Atiyah Bott fixed point theorem , proven by Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott in the 1960s, is a general form of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem for smooth manifold s M , which uses an elliptic complex on M . This is a system of elliptic differential operator s on vector bundle s, generalizing the de Rham complex constructed from smooth differential form s which appears in the original Lefschetz fixed point theorem. Formulation The idea is to find the correct replacement for the Lefschetz number , which in the classical result is an integer counting the correct contribution of a Fixed point mathematics fixed point of a smooth mapping f M M . Intuitively, the fixed points are the points of intersection of the graph of a function graph of f with the diagonal graph of the identity mapping in M × M , and the Lefschetz number thereby becomes an intersection number . The Atiyah Bott theorem is an equation in which the Sides of an equation LHS must be the outcome of a global topological homological calculation, and the Sides of an equation RHS a sum of the local contributions ... complex. Specializing the Atiyah Bott theorem to the de Rham complex of smooth differential forms yields the original Lefschetz fixed point formula. A famous application of the Atiyah Bott theorem ... of this result is entangled with that of the Atiyah Singer index theorem . There was other input ... atiyah bott 35.html that was used in the past referring properly to the case of isolated fixed ... http www.math.ubc.ca cass macpherson talk.pdf ref . blockquote As Atiyah puts it ref Collected Papers ... references References M. F. Atiyah R. Bott A Lefschetz Fixed Point Formula for Elliptic Differential ... number of an endomorphism of an elliptic complex. M. F. Atiyah R. Bott A Lefschetz Fixed Point Formula ... paper. External links http brauer.math.harvard.edu history bott bottbio node18.html DEFAULTSORT Atiyah ... theorems de Atiyah Bott Fixpunktsatz ... more details
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