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    Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in...
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  • mathematics, the Bott periodicity theorem describes a periodicity in the homotopy groups of classical groups, discovered by Raoul Bott (1957, 1959), which...
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  • cohomology group), the extension to higher cohomology groups being provided by Raoul Bott. One can equivalently, through Serre's GAGA, view this as a result in...
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  • In mathematics, the Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem, proven by Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott in the 1960s, is a general form of the Lefschetz fixed-point...
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  • Randy L. Bott Raoul Bott, mathematician Richard Bott Violet Elizabeth Bott the character in a Richmal Crompton novel. Wilf Bott Atiyah–Bott fixed-point...
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    mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. In his dissertation, "Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across...
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  • energy functional on the space of paths). These techniques were used in Raoul Bott's proof of his periodicity theorem. The analogue of Morse theory for complex...
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  • Forbes Nash, Jr., later a Nobel laureate. In 1949, Duffin and his student Raoul Bott developed a generalized method of synthesising networks without transformers...
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  • K-theory and KK-theory. The phenomenon of periodicity named after Raoul Bott (see Bott periodicity theorem) can be formulated this way: K ( X × S 2 ) =...
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  • certain homogeneous generators. The original work of Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott concerned the integral cohomology ring of BunG⁡(X){\displaystyle \operatorname...
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  • World War II are due to Otto Brune and Sidney Darlington. In the 1940s Raoul Bott and Richard Duffin published a synthesis technique that did not require...
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    his studies more seriously. Smale finally earned his PhD in 1957, under Raoul Bott, beginning his career as an instructor at the University of Chicago. Early...
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  • general Raoul Borra (1896–1988), French politician Raoul Bortoletto (1925–2003), Italian footballer Raoul Bossy (1894–1975), Romanian diplomat Raoul Bott (1923–2005)...
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  • In mathematics, the Bott cannibalistic class, introduced by Raoul Bott (1962), is an element θ k ( V ) {\displaystyle \theta _{k}(V)} of the representation...
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  • 1961, and his PhD in 1964; the latter completed under the supervision of Raoul Bott, with a thesis in partial differential equations. He was a Putnam Fellow...
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  • article on Clifford algebras and periodicity with Raoul Bott, later redone by Michael Atiyah and Bott. During WWII Shapiro was in the US Army signal corps...
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    spaces, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups. He is the Raoul Bott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prasad...
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    as a combinatorial object by Raoul Bott and Clifford Taubes and, for this reason, it is also sometimes called the Bott–Taubes polytope. It was later...
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    many mathematicians. His three main collaborations were with Raoul Bott on the Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem and many other topics, with Isadore M. Singer...
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    Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry 1964 Christos Papakyriakopoulos 1964 Raoul Bott 1966 Stephen Smale 1966 Morton Brown and Barry Mazur 1971 Robion Kirby...
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  • Jacques Tits, Alexander Grothendieck, Hans Grauert, Nicolaas Kuiper, Raoul Bott, John Milnor, Stephen Smale, Armand Borel, Shiing-Shen Chern, Kunihiko...
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    combinatorics. Frank Adams Michael Atiyah Enrico Betti Armand Borel Karol Borsuk Raoul Bott Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer William Browder Ronald Brown Henri Cartan...
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    "turning" exists, and that is what Smale did. Smale's graduate adviser Raoul Bott at first told Smale that the result was obviously wrong (Levy 1995). His...
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  • Thom no later than 1957 and was simplified and published by Raoul Bott in 1959. Thom and Bott interpret Y {\displaystyle Y} as the vanishing locus in X...
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    cohomology of groups of diffeomorphisms, was written under the supervision of Raoul Bott. He worked at the University of Maryland (1979–1984), then at the University...
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  • artificial intelligence, 1994 Shafi Goldwasser (B.S. 1979), cryptography, 2012 Raoul Bott (Ph.D. 1949), Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000 George Cowan (Ph.D. 1950)...
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  • Duffin & Raoul Bott, "Impedance synthesis without the use of transformers", Journal of Applied Physics 20:816 John H. Hubbard (2010) "The Bott-Duffin Synthesis...
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    Former faculty deans/house masters include Roger Porter and Ann Porter, Raoul Bott, and Sally Falk Moore and Cresap Moore. Gregory Davis currently serves...
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    (1608–1679) – often referred to as the father of modern biomechanics Raoul Bott (1923–2005) – mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to...
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    PhD from Harvard in 1970. His thesis, written under the direction of Raoul Bott, was entitled Singularities of Maps and Characteristic Classes. Among...
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