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Majid is best known for his pioneering work on [[quantum group]]s where he introduced one of the two main known classes of these objects and worked on all aspects of their theory. His 1995
In 2008, he edited and co-authored an ambitious book of essays ''On Space and Time'' along with [[Alain Connes]], [[Roger Penrose]], [[John Polkinghorne]], [[Michal Heller]] and Andrew Taylor, in which the authors aim to expose the frontier of scientific research on the small and large scale structure of the Universe to a general but scientifically
==Personal life==
At age five, he moved with his family from India to the UK, where his father went on to become a noted orthopaedic surgeon and his mother a primary school teacher and a published poet. He grew up in Hampstead, London, where he now lives, is married to Konstanze Rietsch, a [[University of Vienna]] and [[MIT]] trained pure mathematician based at [[King's College London]], and has two children.
==Education and career==
He did his B.A. and Part III diploma at the [[University of Cambridge]] following the [[
==Scientific
Majid wrote several early papers before his more established PhD work.<ref>[http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~majid/Research.html
His 1988
In the 1990s, Majid introduced the theory of braided groups or [[braided Hopf algebra]]s as the true objects underlying <math>q</math>-deformations. He proved the main theorems in the field of
Also in the 1990s he pioneered the theory and first models of noncommutative or [[quantum spacetime]]s. The 1994 Majid-Ruegg model in particular turned out to be testable by data now being collected by the [[Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope|GLAST]]-Fermi gamma ray space telescope. Whether his model is confirmed or not, the most important thing, according to Majid, is that unlike much of
==A philosophy of Relative Realism==
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<blockquote>"Nature does not necessarily use the maths already in maths books, hence theoretical physicists should be prepared to explore ... all of pure mathematics"</blockquote>
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==Publications==
Numerous research publications and review articles, and the following three
*{{citation|first=S.|last=Majid|title=Foundations of Quantum Group Theory|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-64868-4 |year=1995}}
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*{{citation|title=On Space and Time | editor=S. Majid| publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-88926-1 | year=2008}}
* {{cite book |last1=Beggs |first1=Edwin |last2=Majid |first2=Shahn | year=2020 |title=Quantum Riemannian Geometry |url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030302931 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-30294-8 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |bibcode=2020qrg..book.....B |isbn=978-3-030-30293-1 |s2cid=214461866 }}
==External links==
*[http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~majid Shahn Majid's Academic Home Page]
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*[http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~majid/Public/Entries/2009/3/18_Entry_1_files/CamFestFInal.pdf Talk at the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival about the origin of time]
*[http://www.ewidgetsonline.com/dxreader/Reader.aspx?token=KSvQC0T%2b8xw7PY%2biwDj29A%3d%3d&rand=758262223&buyNowLink=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cambridge.org%2fuk%2fcatalogue%2fAddToBasket.asp%3fisbn%3d9780521889261%26qty%3d1 Read the Preface of ''On Space and Time'']
*[http://amapedia.amazon.com/view/On+Space+and+Time/id=898496/ref=dp_amapedia_3
*[http://www.cambridgeblog.org/tag/shahn-majid/ 12 weekly blog posts by Shahn Majid at Cambridge University Press in 2008]
*[http://plus.maths.org/podcasts/PlusPodcastAug07.mp3 2007 Podcast by ''Plus Magazine'' featuring Shahn Majid]
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*[http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/%7Enick/fom.html 1998 feature in a photographic exhibition Faces of Mathematics]
*[http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~majid/Public/Entries/1997/9/1_An_Essay_on_Physics_V_Mathematics.html Read Shahn Majid's philosophy essay on Physics v Maths circa 1997]
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