James W. P. Hirschfeld

AREA of RESEARCH Finite Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, Coding Theory

31st December 2023: 58 years as a lecturer in Mathematics at Sussex!

3rd May 2017: After 70 years on the course, first hole-in-one on the 8th at The Dyke Golf Club!

4th June 2018: Awarded the 2016 Euler Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications to `recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research.'

Published February 2016!

General Galois Geometries

J.W.P. Hirschfeld and J.A. Thas

Springer, London, 2016, xvi + 409 pp.

Algebraic Curves Over A Finite Field

J.W.P. Hirschfeld, G. Korchmáros and F. Torres

Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008, xxii + 696 pp.

... The summary above gives but a glimpse of the richness of the contents of the book, which is an outstanding contribution to the literature on algebraic curves, a true vade mecum for researchers and students in the field.

        Mathematical Reviews

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QUALITY ASSURANCE Sussex Mathematics gets 23/24 for its teaching!! 28 January 1999

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1 + 1 =0      29 October 2002

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