Nigel Higson

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Nigel David Higson (born 1963 [1] ) is a Canadian math professor at Pennsylvania State University who received the 1996 Coxeter–James Prize. His doctorate came from Dalhousie University in 1985, under the supervision of Peter Fillmore. [2] He works in the fields of operator algebra and K-theory. [3] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. [4] In 2012 he was chosen as one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [5]

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References

  1. Library of Congress
  2. Nigel Higson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Coxeter-James Prize pdf
  4. Higson, Nigel (1998). "The Baum-Connes Conjecture". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 637–646.
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-06-12.