Robert MacPherson
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Robert MacPherson (born May 25, 1944, Lakewood, Ohio) is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is best known for the invention of intersection homology with Mark Goresky.
MacPherson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. His thesis, written under the direction of Raoul Bott, was titled Singularities of Maps and Characteristic Classes.
[edit] Selected publications
- Goresky, Mark; MacPherson, Robert, La dualité de Poincaré pour les espaces singuliers, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. A-B 284 (1977), no. 24, A1549–A1551. MR0440533
- Goresky, Mark; MacPherson, Robert, Intersection homology theory, Topology 19 (1980), no. 2, 135–162. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(80)90003-8 MR0572580
- Goresky, Mark; MacPherson, Robert, Intersection homology. II, Inventiones Mathematicae 72 (1983), no. 1, 77–129. doi:10.1007/BF01389130 MR0696691
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