Aldridge Bousfield

Pete (Aldridge) Bousfield
Born	(1941-04-05)April 5, 1941 Algebraic Topology
Institutions	Brandeis University, University of Chicago
Thesis	Higher Order Suspension Maps for Non-Additive Functors  (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Kan

Aldridge Knight Bousfield (April 5, 1941 – October 4, 2020),^[1] known as "Pete", was an American mathematician working in algebraic topology, known for the concept of Bousfield localization.

Work and life

Bousfield obtained both his undergraduate degree (1963) and his doctorate (1966) at the

where he worked from 1972 to his retirement in 2000.

Bousfield married Marie Vastersavendts, a Belgian mathematician, in 1968. She worked as demographer for the city of Chicago and died in 2016.^[3]

Research

Within algebraic topology, he specialised in homotopy theory. The Bousfield-Kan spectral sequence, Bousfield localization of spectra and model categories, and the Bousfield-Friedlander model structure^[4] are named after Bousfield (and Kan and Friedlander, respectively).

Recognition

He was named to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to homotopy theory and for exposition".^[5]

Selected publications

• Bousfield, Aldridge K.;
  ISBN 978-3-540-06105-2
• Bousfield, Aldridge K.;
  doi:10.1016/0040-9383(72)90024-9
• Bousfield, Aldridge K.;
  doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1973-0372860-2
• Bousfield, Aldridge K. (1977), "Homological Localization Towers for Groups and ${\displaystyle \Pi }$-Modules", Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 10 (186),
  MR 0447375
• Bousfield, Aldridge K.; Friedlander, Eric M. (1978), "Homotopy theory of ${\displaystyle \Gamma }$-spaces, spectra, and bisimplicial sets", Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory II, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 658, Springer-Verlag, pp. 80–130,
  doi:10.1007/BFb0068711
• Bousfield, Aldridge K. (1979), "The localization of spectra with respect to homology",
  doi:10.1016/0040-9383(79)90018-1
• Bousfield, Aldridge K. (1989), "Homotopy Spectral Sequences and Obstructions",
  doi:10.1007/BF02765886

References

1. ^ Cited from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004 and Brooke Shipley (October 10, 2020). "Aldridge (Pete) Bousfield". ALGTOP-L archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
2. ^ Aldridge Bousfield at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ^ "Marie Bousfield (1939-2016)". Chicago Tribune. March 18, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
4. ^ "Bousfield-Friedlander model structure". nLab. September 8, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
5. ^ 2018 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved November 2, 2020