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Jan 8, 2006 · Raoul Bott, a mathematician who made innovative contributions to differential geometry and topology, a field that examines the properties of spaces, died on Dec. 20 in Carlsbad, Calif. He was...
Raoul Bott was born in Budapest in 1923. His lin-eage fully reflects the geopolitical complexity of the region at the time. His mother’s family was Hungarian and Jewish, while his father’s side was Austrian and Catholic. His parents divorced soon after his birth, so he grew up with his mother and stepfather. Raised as a Catholic, Raoul ...
Jan 4, 2002 · The life and works of. Loring W. Tu. Date: January 4, 2002. Department of Mathematics. Tufts University. Medford, MA 02155-7049. ltu@tufts.edu. In a career spanning five decades, Raoul Bott has wrought profound changes on the landscape of geometry and topology.
Raoul Bott was born in Budapest in 1923. His lineage fully reflects the geopolitical complexity of the region at the time. His mother’s family was Hungarian and Jewish, while his father’s side was Austrian and Catholic. His parents divorced soon after his birth, so he grew up with his mother and stepfather.
He joined Harvards faculty in 1959. He has taught at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., the University of Michigan, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France. Bott won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics 2000.
RAoul BoTT manifolds. This was a field that attracted Bott and remained a dominating theme throughout his life. Bott’s most important work for many years centered on the application of Morse theory to the topology of Lie groups and their homogeneous spaces. Lie groups, in particular the
Raoul Bott is one of the outstanding re- searchers in geometry and topology in recent times. He has made important contributions to topology, Lie group theory, foliations and char-acteristic classes, K-theory and index theory, and many other areas of modern mathematics.
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