Raoul Bott
Mathematician, Academic
1923 – 2005
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Who was Raoul Bott?
Raoul Bott, ForMemRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1923
Budapest - Also known as
- Ботт, Рауль
- 拉乌尔·博特
- Рауль Ботт
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Hungarians
- Nationality
- Hungary
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
Electrical engineering - PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Mathematics
( - 1949)
- McGill University
- Employment
- Harvard University
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Slovakia
- Carlsbad
( - 2005/12/20) - Czechoslovakia
- Died
- Dec 20, 2005
San Diego
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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