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1. londmathsoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › epdfRaoul Harry Bott, FRS, 1923–2005

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   Raoul Harry Bott, FRS, 1923–2005 Raoul Bott was one of the outstanding geometers of our time, whose influence on mathematics owed much to the warmth of his personality. Early background Raoul Bott was born in Budapest on 24 September 1923 but lived, until the age of 16 years, in Slovakia.

2. www.ams.org › notices › 201304Remembering Raoul Bott (1923–2005)

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   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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   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.

4. www.ams.org › notices › 200605The Life and Works of Raoul Bott - American Mathematical Society

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   It was by all accounts an idyllic existence, com-plete with a family villa, English governesses, and music lessons. This world came to an abrupt halt in 1935, when his mother died of cancer. In time his stepfather remarried. Raoul’s experimental talent found its full flow-ering in adolescence.

5. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Obituaries › Bott_NYRaoul Bott - New York Times obituary - MacTutor History of ...

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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.

6. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › THE-LIFE-AND-WORKSTHE LIFE AND WORKS OF RAOUL BOTT - Semantic Scholar

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   Jan 4, 2002 · THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RAOUL BOTT. L. Tu. Published 4 January 2002. Mathematics. arXiv: History and Overview. 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.

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   What happened to Raoul Bott?

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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 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 .

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   Where did Raoul Bott live?

   • home in Ne ton, Massachusetts, 1976.Figure 15. Raoul Bott as a pirate king, Phyllis Bott as a maiden, and two students impersonating Phyllis and Raoul at a Dunst r House Halloween party, late 1970s.Raoul did not always remember the seminar schedule, so he enjoyed having his office across from the

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   Why did Raoul think we made a great pair?

   • ith Raoul, I was a graduate student. He thought that we made a great pair wo king toget er, because as a graduateFigure 19. Left to right: Tsai-Han Kiang, Shiing-Shen Chern, Hsio-Fu Tuan, Shan-Tao Liao, Raoul Bott, Shing-Tung Yau, Guang-Lei Wu (in white shirt), Mrs. Yau (in re

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   • r me to continue to visit the Botts. Soon after their move, aoul was diagnosed with lung cancer. In spite of the poor progn sis, he was his usual cheerful self. He explained the principle of chemotherapy to me this way: “It tries to kill th cancer faster than it kills you.” He faced t

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   • hen Smale orga-nized a beach hik inwhich Raoul Bott nearl drowned. Afterwards, Bott Figure 2. Raoul Bott (lef ) in the sometimes joked that 1930s.Smale tried to kill him.When Bott said Smale was his “worst” student, it was not in the mathe atical sense but in the moral sense. Her

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8. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Biographies › BottRaoul Bott (1923 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of ...

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   Dec 20, 2005 · Summary. Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-born mathematician who made fundamental contributions to topology and differential geometry. View seven larger pictures. Biography. Raoul Bott's father was a Roman Catholic of Austrian descent, while his mother was Jewish of Hungarian descent.