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| Born | October 25, 1914 Virdin, IL, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Buenos Aires |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. L. Doob |
| Known for |
Ambrose- Singer holonomy theorem (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 75 (1953), 428–443) |
| Notable awards | John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1947) |
Warren A. Ambrose (October 25, 1914 – December 4, 1995) was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Buenos Aires.
He was born in Virden, Illinois in 1914. He received the bachelor of science degree in 1935, the master's in 1936 and the PhD in 1939, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/ambrose-0110.html).
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Warren Ambrose was a food and wine conesseiur, and also a fan of jaz saxophone player, Charlie "Bird" Parker (The Man Who Pushed America to War). He is noted for having a close friendship with an MIT collegue, I.M. Singer, both of whom helped to shape the pure mathematics department at MIT (http://www.ams.org/notices/199604/comm-ambrose.pdf) He retired from teaching at MIT in 1985, thereafter moving to France. Ambrose died December 4 in Paris and is preceded his wife, Jeannette (Grillet) Ambrose of Paris, two children from an earlier marriage, Adam Ambrose of Bisbee, AZ, and Ellen Ambrose of Laurel, MD, and four grandchildren (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/ambrose-0110.html).
Dr. Ambrose became an assistant professor at MIT in 1947, an associate professor in 1950 and full professor in 1957 (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/ambrose-0110.html). Ambrose is often considered one of the fathers of modern geometry (http://books.google.com/books/Reflections of eminent economists). He is noted for making changes in the pure mathematics undergraduate ciriculum at MIT to reflect recent findings in differential geometry. For example, less than ten years after Andrew Weil presented the differential form, Ambrose was using it in his undergraduate differential geometry courses. In the 1950s, Ambrose (together with I. M. Singer) made MIT into the only center in geometry in the United States outside of the University of Chicago (http://www.ams.org/notices/199604/comm-ambrose.pdf). Ambrose was also visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is noted for his opposition of military regimes takeover in South American countries, specifically Argentina (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/ambrose-0110.html).
In the summer of 1966, while a visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Ambrose was severely beaten along with other MIT faculty members and students by Argentinian military police. This occurred shortly after a military regime took over public universities in Argentina. Ambrose responded by bringing several of the best and brightest students from the University of Buenos Aires back to MIT with him (http://books.google.com/books?/ Reflections of eminent economists). Ambrose is often renowned amongst Latin American intellectuals for bringing attention to right-wing dictatorships in South America (The Man Who Pushed America to War).