Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer | |
|---|---|
 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 |
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.
Singer was known for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962,.
Singer died on February 11, 2021 at his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts at the age of 96.
References
- ↑ "Isadore Singer | MIT Mathematics". math.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ↑ "Isadore M. Singer | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ↑ "Singer biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ↑ Devlin, Keith (April 2004). "Abel Prize Awarded: The Mathematicians' Nobel". Devlin's Angle. Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ↑ Isadore M. Singer, May 3, 1924 - Feb 11, 2021
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