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A renowned topologist who established the University of Warwick's Mathematical Institute as a major centre has died.
Sir Christopher Zeeman (pictured below, left) was born in Japan to a Danish father and a British mother on 4 February 1925 and was brought to England a year later.
After national service in the Royal Air Force, he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, stayed on for both an MA and a PhD and was appointed a fellow at Gonville and Caius College.
He soon established his eminence as a pure mathematician in the field of geometric topology, for example by demonstrating how to knot manifolds and turn spheres...