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Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) 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.
Dec 20, 2005 · Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-born mathematician who made fundamental contributions to topology and differential geometry. View seven larger pictures. Biography. Raoul Bott's father was a Roman Catholic of Austrian descent, while his mother was Jewish of Hungarian descent.
Raoul Bott, a mathematician who made innovative contributions to differential geometry and topology, a field that examines the properties of spaces, died on Dec. 20 in Carlsbad, Calif. He was 82....
Remembering Raoul Bott (1923–2005) fe, Shing-Tung Yau, and Loring W. TuRaoul B. tt passed away on December 20, 2005. Over a five-decade career he made many profound and fundamental con. ri-butions to geometry and topology. This is the sec-ond part of a two-part article in the Noti.
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In a career spanning five decades, Raoul Bott has wrought profound changes on the landscape of geometry and topology. It is a daunting task to improve upon his own reminiscences [B3], [B4], [B1] and com-mentaries on papers [B5], punctuated as they are by insight, colorful turns of phrases and amusing anecdotes.
Raoul Bott is one of the outstanding re- searchers in geometry and topology in recent times. He has made important contributions to topology, Lie group theory, foliations and char-acteristic classes, K-theory and index theory, and many other areas of modern mathematics.
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-born mathematician who taught at Harvard and won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2000. He made fundamental contributions in topology, differential geometry, Lie groups, and mathematical physics.
