William Browder (mathematician)

William Browder

Born	(1934-01-06) January 6, 1934 (age 90) New York City, US
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Known for	Surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds
Parent	Earl Browder (father)
Relatives	Felix Browder (brother) Andrew Browder (brother) Bill Browder (nephew) Joshua Browder (great-nephew)

Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	John Coleman Moore
Doctoral students	Alejandro Adem Sylvain Cappell Michael Freedman Louis Kauffman Santiago López de Medrano George Lusztig Frank Quinn Dennis Sullivan John Wagoner Tadashi Tokieda

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.

YouTube Encyclopedic

1/5
Views:
348
371
4 799
589
49 670

Transcription

Life and career

William Browder was born in New York City in 1934, the son of Raisa (née Berkmann), a Jewish Russian woman from Saint Petersburg, and American Communist Party leader Earl Browder, from Wichita, Kansas. His father had moved to the Soviet Union in 1927, where he met and married Raisa. Their sons Felix Browder and Andrew Browder (born 1931) were both born there.^[3] He attended local schools. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree 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.^[2]^[4]

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", Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol. 65, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1972)
"Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory", Princeton University Press, 1987, 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)

References

^ ^a ^b Quinn, Frank, ed. (1995), Prospects in topology: proceedings of a conference in honor of William Browder, Annals of mathematics studies, vol. 138, Princeton University Press, 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

v t e Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
1888–1900	John Howard Van Amringe (1888–1890) Emory McClintock (1891–1894) George William Hill (1895–1896) Simon Newcomb (1897–1898) Robert Simpson Woodward (1899–1900)
1901–1924	E. H. Moore (1901–1902) Thomas Fiske (1903–1904) William Fogg Osgood (1905–1906) Henry Seely White (1907–1908) Maxime Bôcher (1909–1910) Henry Burchard Fine (1911–1912) Edward Burr Van Vleck (1913–1914) Ernest William Brown (1915–1916) Leonard Eugene Dickson (1917–1918) Frank Morley (1919–1920) Gilbert Ames Bliss (1921–1922) Oswald Veblen (1923–1924)
1925–1950	George David Birkhoff (1925–1926) Virgil Snyder (1927–1928) Earle Raymond Hedrick (1929–1930) Luther P. Eisenhart (1931–1932) Arthur Byron Coble (1933–1934) Solomon Lefschetz (1935–1936) Robert Lee Moore (1937–1938) Griffith C. Evans (1939–1940) Marston Morse (1941–1942) Marshall H. Stone (1943–1944) Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (1945–1946) Einar Hille (1947–1948) Joseph L. Walsh (1949–1950)
1951–1974	John von Neumann (1951–1952) Gordon Thomas Whyburn (1953–1954) Raymond Louis Wilder (1955–1956) Richard Brauer (1957–1958) Edward J. McShane (1959–1960) Deane Montgomery (1961–1962) Joseph L. Doob (1963–1964) Abraham Adrian Albert (1965–1966) Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1967–1968) Oscar Zariski (1969–1970) Nathan Jacobson (1971–1972) Saunders Mac Lane (1973–1974)
1975–2000	Lipman Bers (1975–1976) R. H. Bing (1977–1978) Peter Lax (1979–1980) Andrew M. Gleason (1981–1982) Julia Robinson (1983–1984) Irving Kaplansky (1985–1986) George Mostow (1987–1988) William Browder (1989–1990) Michael Artin (1991–1992) Ronald Graham (1993–1994) Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1995–1996) Arthur Jaffe (1997–1998) Felix Browder (1999–2000)
2001–2024	Hyman Bass (2001–2002) David Eisenbud (2003–2004) James Arthur (2005–2006) James Glimm (2007–2008) George Andrews (2009–2010) Eric Friedlander (2011–2012) David Vogan (2013–2014) Robert Bryant (2015–2016) Ken Ribet (2017–2018) Jill Pipher (2019–2020) Ruth Charney (2021–2022) Bryna Kra (2023–2024)

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
National	France BnF data Germany Israel United States Czech Republic Netherlands
Academics	MathSciNet Mathematics Genealogy Project zbMATH
Other	SNAC IdRef

This page was last edited on 7 April 2024, at 09:56

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia