Victor Guillemin

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Victor William Guillemin (b. 1937) is a mathematician, a leader in the field of symplectic geometry, who has also made fundamental contributions to the fields of microlocal analysis, spectral theory, and mathematical physics. He has strongly influenced many graduate students and postdoctoral visitors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a tenured Professor in the Department of Mathematics, and where he has supervised over 40 doctoral students.

Guillemin received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University. His thesis, titled Theory of Finite G-Structures, was written under the direction of Shlomo Sternberg.

He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985. In 2003, he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and monographs, including a best-selling text book on differential topology, written jointly with Alan Pollack.

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Guillemin, Victor and Sternberg, Shlomo (1977). Geometric asymptotics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1514-8. ; reprinted in 1990 as an on-line book