Mathematician:Raoul Bott

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Mathematician

Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry.


Wolf Prize

Raoul Bott was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {2000}$:

For his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.


Nationality

American, of Hungarian origin


History

  • Born: September 24, 1923 in Budapest, Hungary
  • Died: December 20, 2005 in San Diego, California


Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Raoul Bott can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Raoul Bott can be found here.


Publications

  • 1947: Electrical Network Theory


Sources