William Browder (mathematician)
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Coleman Moore |
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William Browder (born January 6, 1934)[1][2] is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential geometry. Browder was one of the pioneers with Sergei Novikov, Dennis Sullivan and C. T. C. Wall of the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds. He served as president of the American Mathematical Society until 1990.
Life and career
William Browder was born in
Since 1964 Browder has been a professor at Princeton University; he was chair of the mathematics department at Princeton from 1971 to 1973. He was editor of the journal Annals of Mathematics from 1969 to 1981, and president of the American Mathematical Society from 1989 to 1991.[2]
Browder was elected to the
United States National Academy of Sciences in 1980, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984, and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters in 1990.[2] In 1994 a conference was held at Princeton in celebration of his 60th birthday.[1] In 2012 a conference was held at Princeton on the occasion of his retirement.[5]
Selected bibliography
- Books
- "Surgery on Simply-Connected Manifolds", Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1972)
- "Algebraic Topology and Algebraic ISBN 0-691-08426-2
- Seminal papers
- "Homotopy Type of Differentiable Manifolds", Proc. 1962 Aarhus Conference, published in Proc. 1993
- Oberwolfach Novikov Conjecture Conference proceedings, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 226 (1995)
- "The Kervaire invariant of framed manifolds and its generalization", Annals of Mathematics 90, 157–186 (1969)
See also
- Assembly map
- Exotic sphere
- Kervaire invariant
- Normal invariant
- Signature (topology)
- Surgery exact sequence
- Earl Browder, father
- Felix Browder, brother
- Andrew Browder, brother
- Bill Browder, nephew
- Joshua Browder, grandnephew
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-691-02728-9.
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae from Browder's web site, retrieved 2010-10-06.
- ^ "Browder_William biography". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ William Browder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Panorama of Topology: A Conference in Honor of William Browder". math.princeton.edu. Princeton University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William Browder", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- William Browder (AMS brief bio)
- Browder, William, "My life in mathematics: How I became a mathematician and the milestones of my career" (2012 video)
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