Donald C. Spencer | |
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| Born | Donald Clayton Spencer April 25, 1912 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
| Died | December 23, 2001 (aged 89) Durango, Colorado, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado at Boulder Massachusetts Institute of Technology Trinity College, Cambridge[1] |
| Known for | Spencer cohomology Kodaira–Spencer map Salem–Spencer set |
| Awards | Bôcher Memorial Prize (1948) National Medal of Science (1989) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | J. E. Littlewood and G.H. Hardy |
| Doctoral students | Pierre Conner Patrick X. Gallagher Phillip Griffiths Robert Hermann Roger Horn Louis Howard Joseph J. Kohn Suresh H. Moolgavkar |
Donald Clayton Spencer (April 25, 1912 – December 23, 2001) was an American mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado and MIT.