William Browder (mathematician)











































William Browder
William Browder.jpg
Born
(1934-01-06) January 6, 1934 (age 85)

New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Known for
Surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds
Relatives
Earl Browder (Father)
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.




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Selected bibliography


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





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][6]



Selected bibliography


Books


  • "Surgery on Simply-Connected Manifolds", Ergebnisse series 65, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1972)

  • "Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory", Princeton University Press, 1987, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    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, LMS Lecture Notes 226 (1995)

  • "The Kervaire invariant of framed manifolds and its generalization", Annals of Mathematics 90, 157–186 (1969)



See also




  • Earl Browder, father


  • Felix Browder, brother


  • Andrew Browder, brother


  • Bill Browder, nephew


  • Joshua Browder, grandnephew



References





  1. ^ ab Quinn, Frank, ed. (1995), Prospects in topology: proceedings of a conference in honor of William Browder, Annals of mathematics studies, 138, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-02728-9.


  2. ^ abcd Curriculum vitae from Browder's web site, retrieved 2010-10-06.


  3. ^ "Browder_William biography". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2018.


  4. ^ William Browder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


  5. ^ [1]


  6. ^ "Panorama of Topology: A Conference in Honor of William Browder". math.princeton.edu. Princeton University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 15 September 2018.




External links




  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William Browder", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

  • William Browder (AMS brief bio)

  • Browder, William, "My life in mathematics: How I became a mathematician and the milestones of my career" (2012 video)










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