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Raoul Bott, FRS (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic 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.
Career
Bott was born in Budapest, Hungary, grew up in Slovakia and spent his working life in the United States.
His family emigrated to Canada in 1938, and subsequently he served in the Canadian Army in Europe during World War II. He later went to college at McGill University in Montreal, and then earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1949.
His thesis, titled Electrical Network Theory, was written under the direction of Richard Duffin.
Raoul bott biography
Afterward, he began teaching at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1959 to 1999, and received the Wolf Prize in 2000. In 2005, he was elected an Overseas Fellow of the Royal