Talk:Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

That conjecture

Is there any reason why the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is referred to in this article as simply the Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture? I'm also not too keen on saying that it relates L-function "to" elliptic curves. It relates properties of the L-functions of elliptic curves to arithmetic/algebraic properties of the curves themselves. I think it would be better to say that it is about the L-function "of" elliptic curves and leave it at that. Richard Pinch 12:02, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Master of St. Catherine's 1979-1981

I was a Trinity 1982-5 and St. Peter was definitely master of Cats in 1983. He also got married in the college chapel in 1984/5. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.51.162 (talk) 13:45, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Peter was Master of Cats from 1973 to 1983. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.242.241.97 (talk) 17:55, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Infobox

The caption on the photo makes the infobox unpleasantly wide. I propose trimming the caption to "Peter Swinnerton-Dyer at Oberwolfach, 2007". Any objections? Artie P.S. (talk) 16:52, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree with you. Gareth Jones (talk) 17:20, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I fixed it using a (permitted) <br /> tag. Ok like this? -- Momotaro (talk) 17:22, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

WP:OR trivia

In the early 1970s, he was to my knowledge known in some Cambridge circles (for fairly obvious reasons) as Peter Spinnerton-Dryer. Narky Blert (talk) 18:42, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Trivia

Peter spent some time in the USA - giving rise to the following carol of unknown origin.

Hark the herald porters sing HPF S-D for king Peace on Earth all men make merry With a crate of Deanly sherry.

Now he leaves the Deanery For transatlantic scenery And the Regent House proclaim Trinity is not the same.

Hark the herald porters sing HPF S-D for king. 2600:1700:1E7C:0:8CF:F390:551E:8732 (talk) 00:21, 9 January 2022 (UTC)