Robert Thomas Seeley

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Robert Thomas Seeley (born February 26, 1932, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States–died November 30, 2016, in Newton, Massachusetts) was a mathematician who worked on pseudo differential operators and the heat equation approach to the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. [1] [2]

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In differential geometry, the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, proved by Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer (1963), states that for an elliptic differential operator on a compact manifold, the analytical index is equal to the topological index. It includes many other theorems, such as the Riemann–Roch theorem, as special cases, and has applications in theoretical physics.

Seeley did his undergraduate studies at Haverford College, and earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, under the supervision of Alberto Pedro Calderón. [3] He taught at Harvey Mudd College and then in 1962 joined the faculty of Brandeis University. In 1972 he moved to the University of Massachusetts Boston; he retired as an emeritus professor. [2] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "ROBERT THOMAS SEELEY's Obituary". Boston Globe . December 2016. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  2. 1 2 , U. Mass. Boston Mathematics, retrieved 2016-12-01.
  3. ↑ Robert Thomas Seeley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-14.


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