William Abikoff

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William Abikoff (born 1944) is an American mathematician. He has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut since 1981. [1]

Abikoff earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering under the supervision of Georges Gustave Weill. [2] In 2012, Abikoff became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [3]

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