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Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) [1] was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.
Raoul Bott passed away on December 20, 2005. Over a five-decade career he made many profound and fundamental contri-butions to geometry and topology. This is the sec-ond part of a two-part article in the Notices to commemorate his life and work.
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Despite Raoul’s sketchy and formally inadequate mathematical background, he was accepted as a PhD student and in the spring of 1949 he finally found himself on the verge of becoming a mathematician.
Raoul Bott and Joseph H. Sampson, Conference on Manifolds, Tokyo, mid-1960s. Bott Family Collection. My first encounter with Raoul was most memorable. I was still a lowly undergraduate at Harvard, though taking some advanced courses.
Mar 27, 2018 · Raoul Bott passed away on December 20, 2005. In a career spanning five decades, he has wrought profound changes on the landscape of geometry and topology. It is a daunting task to improve upon his own reminiscences [B3], [B4], [B1] and commentaries on papers [B5],...
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Mar 27, 2018 · Raoul Bott passed away on December 20, 2005. Over a five-decade career he made many profound and fundamental contributions to geometry and topology. This is the second part of a two-part article in the Notices to commemorate his life and work.
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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 82. The cause was lung cancer, his family said.
