William Browder (mathematician)

William Browder ( born January 6, 1934 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with topology ( algebraic topology, differential topology).

Browder is the son of the temporary secretary of the United States Earl Browder and brother of the mathematician Felix Browder Communist Party. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Master's degree in 1954 ) and received his doctorate in 1958 John Coleman Moore at Princeton University ( Homology of Loop Spaces ). Since 1964 he is a professor at Princeton. 1963/64 and 1975 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study.

In 1966 he gave a lecture on the ICM in Moscow ( Embedding smooth manifolds ) and 1970, a plenary lecture at the ICM in Nice ( Manifolds and Homotopy Theory).

1989 to 1991 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, of which he is a Fellow. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Browder is with Sergei Novikov, Dennis Sullivan and Terry Wall one of the pioneers of Surgery method ( surgery) the fragmentation of manifolds in geometric topology.

His doctoral include Michael Freedman, Frank Quinn and Alexander Zábrodský.

Writings

• Surgery on simply connected manifolds. In: Results of mathematics and its applications. Springer, 1972.
• Algebraic Topology and Algebraic - Theory. Princeton University Press, 1987.