Isadore Singer
American mathematician
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]
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