William Fulton

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William Fulton (born 1939) is an American algebraic geometer. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1961 and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1966. Fulton worked at Princeton and Brandeis University from 1965 until 1970, when he began teaching at Brown. In 1987 he moved to the University of Chicago.^[1] He is currently (2007) a professor at the University of Michigan.^[2]

Fulton is known as the author or coauthor of a number of popular texts, including Algebraic Curves and Representation Theory. In 1996 he received the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition for his text Intersection Theory.^[1] Fulton is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.

[edit] Selected works

• Algebraic Curves: An Introduction To Algebraic Geometry, with Richard Weiss. New York: Benjamin, 1969. Reprint ed.: Redwood City, CA, USA: Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Classics, 1989. ISBN 0-201-51010-3.
• Intersection Theory, New York, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1984. ISBN 3-540-12176-5, ISBN 0-387-12176-5. 2nd ed., 1998, ISBN 3-540-62046-X, ISBN 0-387-98549-2.
• (with Joe Harris) Representation Theory: A First Course, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1991. ISBN 0-387-97527-6.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Announcement of the 1996 Steele Prizes at the American Mathematical Society web site, accessed 21-II-2007.
2. ^ University of Michigan mathematics department, alphabetical faculty listing, accessed 21-II-2007.

[edit] External links

• Fulton's home page at the University of Michigan