William Boone (mathematician)
| William Werner Boone | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 16, 1920 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died |
September 14, 1983 (aged 63) Urbana, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Alonzo Church |
| Known for |
Boone–Higman theorem Boone–Rogers theorem Novikov–Boone theorem |
William Werner Boone (Cincinnati, 16 January 1920 – Urbana, Illinois, 14 September 1983) was an American mathematician. Alonzo Church was his Ph.D. advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Selected publications
- W. W. Boone, Decision problems about algebraic and logical systems as a whole and recursively enumerable degrees of unsolvability. 1968 Contributions to Math. Logic (Colloquium, Hannover, 1966), North-Holland, Amsterdam.
- W. W. Boone, Roger Lyndon, Frank Cannonito, Word Problems: Decision Problem in Group Theory, North-Holland, 1973.
William W. Boone and Eileen Boone at Altgeld Hall University of Illinois 1979-photo William J. Boone
References
- Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Oxford University Press: New York. Editor-in-chief: Solomon Feferman, Volume IV: Correspondence, A–G, ISBN 978-0-19-850073-5.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William Werner Boone", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- William Werner Boone at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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