Sir Michael Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician who made remarkable contributions to geometry as well as topology. He was also popular as co-developer of the topological K-theory, as well as the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. Atiyah was born in Hampstead, London, in the UK, and he grew up in Sudan and Egypt. He spent most of his academic life in the UK where he studied at the University of Oxford, as well as the University of Cambridge. He also later went to US and studied at the Institute Advanced Study. For some time, he was also the President of the Royal Society. He was the founding director of the Isaac Newton Institure as well. From 1997, till his death in 2019, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. He had also received a knighthood as well as the Order of Merit. Throughout his career, has also published several books such as ‘K-theory’, ‘Geometry of Yang-Mills Fields’, and ‘The Geometry and Physics of Knots’.
