Author

Raoul Bott

1923 - 2005

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed:  English
educated at:  McGill University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
occupation:  mathematician, physicist, university teacher
award received:  Guggenheim Fellowship, Leroy P. Steele Prize, National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Sloan Fellowship

Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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