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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.
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The first time I met Raoul was at an orientation lunch for incoming graduate students in mathematics at the Harvard Faculty Club. Raoul gave us some advice on how to write a Ph.D. thesis. He said it was like doing a homework problem, but a harder problem. He ended by saying, “Make the problem your own.” It puzzled me what it meant to “make a proble...
Bott’s lectures were legendary. He had a knack for explaining ideas in simple, easily understood terms, no matter how abstruse, complicated, or abstract the topic. His lectures were always clear and exciting. They were magical in that they gave you the feeling you had understood something, sometimes even when you had not. Not surprisingly, his lect...
One year Bott taught the second semester of complex analysis, and the textbook he chose was Lars Ahlfors’s Complex Analysis. At some point he departed from the book and gave a different definition. Now students often revere the textbook as the ultimate authority, so a hand shot up and a student blurted out, “But Ahlfors says this, not that!” Bott r...
One day in the early 1980s a poster appeared on the bulletin board of the Harvard mathematics department on the third floor of the Science Center. It looked just like any other announcement, but with a twist. On the top it said, “By popular demand, Professor Raoul Bott will give a lecture on ‘The Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem: What It Really Means’ ”...
Nowhere were Bott’s powers of persuasion more evident than at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in March 2005. On that occasion he gave a talk reminiscing about how the institute in the fifties changed his life and launched his career (Figure 37). A few days after the conference, Bob MacPherson, a profes...
Coming from a family of teetotalers, I knew nothing about alcohol as a graduate student. At one point I thought it would be good to repair my ignorance in this domain. Raoul had the look of a bon vivant who might be knowledgeable about such things. Just as some students might ask him for good references in topology, when I ran into him in the eleva...
When I first started working on the book Differential Forms in Algebraic Topologywith Raoul, I was a graduate student. He thought that we made a great pair working together, because as a graduate student I would know first-hand the difficulties a student would encounter in learning the subject. I think Raoul did not anticipate that it would end up ...
Raoul had a playful streak that persisted throughout his life. He liked to tease everyone: his wife, children, friends, colleagues, and even students. His interaction with me was no exception. His concern for me extended to my personal happiness. My time as a graduate student at Harvard overlapped with that of Nancy Hingston, a good friend of mine ...
In my first year as an assistant professor at Michigan, I worked long distance with Raoul on the book Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology. That summer I returned to Harvard to facilitate our collaboration. At the time Raoul and his wife, Phyllis, were comasters of Dunster House, a Harvard undergraduate house with three hundred undergraduates. ...
The dust-ball incident was one of only two times that I saw Raoul get mad. The other time had to do with the contract for our book. While working on the book, we circulated the manuscript to some colleagues and students for feedback. Possibly because of Raoul’s fame, the book was heavily courted by publishers2. Both Walter Kaufmann-Bühler, the math...
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Raoul Bott, 1926-2005. It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Raoul Bott passed away December 20, 2005. A memorial service is now set for Sunday, January 29 at 1:30 in the Memorial Church at Harvard.
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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By Sir Michael Atiyah. Raoul’s mother died of cancer when he was just 12 years old—a devastating blow1 that brought him closer to his stepfather. He also had a network of uncles, aunts, and cousins who provided an extended family.
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Mar 27, 2018 · Raoul Bott was born in Budapest on 24 September 1923 but lived, until the age of 16 years, in Slovakia. He was a typical child of the Austro-Hungarian world, speaking and educated in a variety of languages: Hungarian, Slovak, German and English (learnt from his English governesses).
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