| RefNo | EC/2005/45 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Bott, Raoul: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Raoul Bott started his academic studies as an electrical engineer but in the course of a varied career evolved into one of the great mathematicians of the second half of the twentieth century. His work lies at the heart of most of the major advances in geometry and topology in the last fifty years. His contributions include the Borel-Weil-Bott theorem relating Lie group representations to algebraic geometry, the imaginative use of Morse theory in an enormous variety of areas, and work on homotopy theory, foliations, characteristic classes and elliptic operators. He has been a frequent visitor to the UK. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8822 | Bott; Raoul (1923 - 2005) | 1923 - 2005 |