Isadore Singer
American mathematician (1924–2021)
Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2][3]
Isadore Singer | |
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 Isadore Singer, 1977 | |
| Born | Isadore Manuel Singer May 3, 1924 |
| Died | February 11, 2021 (aged 96) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BA) University of Chicago (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Atiyah–Singer index theorem |
| Spouse | Rosemary Singer (m. 1956) |
| Awards | Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969) National Medal of Science (1983) Wigner Medal (1988) Steele Prize (2000) Abel Prize (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA |
| Doctoral advisor | Irving Segal |
| Doctoral students | Richard L. Bishop Andrew Browder David G. Ebin Dan Freed Conan Nai-Chung Leung John Lott Hugo Rossi Linda Rothschild Gerald Schwarz Nancy K. Stanton Frank W. Warner |
Singer was known for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962,.[4]
Singer died on February 11, 2021 at his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts at the age of 96.[5]
References
change- ↑ "Isadore Singer | MIT Mathematics". math.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ↑ "Isadore M. Singer | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ↑ "Singer biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ↑ Devlin, Keith (April 2004). "Abel Prize Awarded: The Mathematicians' Nobel". Devlin's Angle. Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ↑ Isadore M. Singer, May 3, 1924 - Feb 11, 2021
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