William Browder (mathematician)
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William Browder (born January 6, 1934) is a United States mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential geometry. Son of Earl Browder, brother of Felix Browder.
Browder graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) in 1954 and received his Ph.D. from the Princeton University in 1958, dissertation: Homology of Loop Spaces, advised by John Coleman Moore. Since 1964 he has been a professor at Princeton University, commonly recognized as a leading topologist of his generation.
Browder was President of the American Mathematical Society (1989-1991), among other posts with the Society. Other activities include NAS/NRC.
Browder was one of the pioneers with Sergei Novikov, Dennis Sullivan and Terry Wall of the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
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[edit] Selected bibliography
[edit] Books
- "Surgery on Simply-Connected Manifolds", Ergebnisse series 65, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1972)
- "Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory", Princeton University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-691-08426-2
[edit] Seminal papers
- "Homotopy Type of Differentiable Manifolds", Proc. 1962 Arhus Conference, published in Proc. 1993
- Oberwolfach Novikov Conjecture Conference proceedings, LMS Lecture Notes 226 (1995)
- "The Kervaire invariant of framed manifolds and its generalization", Ann. of Math.s 90, 157--186 (1969)
