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Raoul Bott

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Hungarian-born mathematician

United StatesAcademicsLived 1923 to 2005 · aged 82
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Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse-Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel-Bott-Weil theorem.

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2005Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2000Wolf Prize in Mathematics
1990Leroy P. Steele Prize
1987National Medal of Science
1976Guggenheim Fellowship
1964Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
1956Sloan Fellowship

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Stephen SmaleAlso won Oswald Veblen Prize in GeometryRobert LanglandsAlso won Wolf Prize in MathematicsRudolf E. KálmánAlso won Leroy P. Steele PrizeSteven D. LevittAlso won Sloan FellowshipDana ScottAlso won Leroy P. Steele PrizeAtle SelbergAlso won Wolf Prize in Mathematics

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1923 to 2005 · aged 82
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