William Browder (mathematician)
| William Browder | |
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Browder in 1970
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| Born |
January 6, 1934 New York City |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | John Coleman Moore |
| Doctoral students |
Alejandro Adem Sylvain Cappell Michael Freedman Louis Kauffman George Lusztig William Pardon Ted Petrie Frank Quinn Dennis Sullivan John Wagoner Elmar Winkelnkemper Tadashi Tokieda |
| Known for | Surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds. |
William Browder (born January 6, 1934) 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 Terry Wall of the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
Browder is the son of Raissa (née Berkmann) and former American Communist Party leader Earl Browder, and the brother of the mathematicians Felix Browder and Andrew Browder. His mother was a Jewish immigrant from St. Petersburg, Russia, and his father was from Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) in 1954 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1958, with a dissertation entitled Homology of Loop Spaces, advised by John Coleman Moore. Since 1964 he 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.
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