Isadore Singer

Isadore Singer
Singer in 1977
BornMay 3, 1924
DiedFebruary 11, 2021(2021-02-11) (aged 96)
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Spouse
Rosemary Singer
(m. 1956)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisLie Algebras of Unbounded Operators (1950)
Doctoral advisorIrving Segal
Doctoral students

Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2][3]

Singer is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah, proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962, which paved the way for new interactions between pure mathematics and theoretical physics.[4] In early 1980s, while a professor at Berkeley, Singer co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) with Shiing-Shen Chern and Calvin Moore.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Isadore Singer". math.mit.edu. Department of Mathematics, MIT. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  2. ^ "Isadore M. Singer | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  3. ^ "Singer biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  4. ^ Devlin, Keith (April 2004). "Abel Prize Awarded: The Mathematicians' Nobel". Devlin's Angle. Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  5. ^ MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  6. ^ "Shiing-Shen Chern". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved April 20, 2018.