Franklin P. Peterson

Franklin Paul Peterson ( born August 27, 1930 in Aurora ( Illinois), † September 1, 2000 in Washington, DC) was an American mathematician who dealt with algebraic topology.

Life and work

Peterson graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and was completed in 1955 at Princeton University in Norman Steenrod doctorate ( Generalized cohomotopy groups). After that, he was a lecturer at Princeton and was from 1958 Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a full professorship in 1965.

He dealt with Kohomologieoperationen and among other immersions in differential topology, and worked here and in other areas with Edgar H. Brown. With Brown he also led a 1966 Brown -Peterson Kohomologien.

1974 to 1998 he was treasurer of the American Mathematical Society, whose transactions he edited from 1966 to 1970.

His doctoral include Ethan Devinatz, Paul Görß, David J. Anick and W. Stephen Wilson.

Writings

• Publisher The Steenrod algebra and its applications: a conference to celebrate NE Steenrod 's sixtieth birthday ( Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus / Ohio 1970), Springer Verlag 1970
• With EH Brown Relations among characteristic classes, I., Topology, Volume 3, 1964, p 39-52
• With EH Brown On immersions of n- manifolds, Advances in Mathematics, 24, 1977, 74-77
• With EH Brown Algebraic bordism groups, Annals of Mathematics, 79, 1964, 616-622
• With EH Brown, D. Anderson spin cobordism, Bulletin AMS, 72, 1966, 256-260
• With EH Brown A universal space for normal bundles of n- manifolds, Comm. Math Helveticae, 54, 1979, 405-430
• With EH Brown A spectrum Whose cohomology is the algebra of Reduced pth powers, Topology 5, 1966, 149-154