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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.
Feb 17, 2021 · Institute Professor Emeritus Isadore M. Singer, an enormously influential figure in 20th-century science whose work united mathematics and physics, died on Feb. 11. He was 96. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Singer not only profoundly affected the development of mathematics, but discovered connections between math and physics that led to the creation of a new field, index theory. Singer was the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his pioneering work, including the ...
Isadore Singer (born May 3, 1924, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died February 11, 2021, Boxborough, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician awarded, together with the British mathematician Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, the 2004 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters for “their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics. ...
Feb 11, 2021 · Isadore Singer is known as Is or Iz. His parents, Simon Singer and Freda Rose, were Polish. They emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1917 and married in that city before moving to Detroit, Michigan. Isadore enjoyed both science and reading while at school but when he entered the University of Michigan in September 1941 he decided to study physics rather than English literature.
Feb 12, 2021 · Isadore Singer has contributed a lot to the renewed fertile interaction between physics and mathematics initiated by physicists’ discoveries of selfdual field configurations in gauge theories in the 1970ies, and it makes me feel sad that another grand master of the field is no longer among us. The index theorem and how it counts the zero modes of the Dirac operator on an instanton is wonderful stand-alone math stuff which, moreover, has deep physical implications in pointing to the ...
Feb 12, 2021 · Isadore Manuel Singer — known to his friends as Is — was born on May 3, 1924, in Detroit to Simon and Freda Singer, immigrants from Poland. His father, who spoke only Yiddish, was a printer ...
JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus UC In Memoriam biography. RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geometry, Partial differential equations, Physics ...
Institute Professor Emeritus Isadore Singer, who became “one of the most important mathematicians of his era,” has died at age 96, reports Julie Rehmeyer for The New York Times. “Dr. Singer created a bridge between two seemingly unrelated areas of mathematics and then used it to build a further bridge, into theoretical physics,” writes Rehmeyer. “The achievement created the foundation for a blossoming of mathematical physics unseen since the time of Isaac Newton and Gottfried ...
Isadore Singer. Affiliation Mathematics From the American Philosophical Society: …In his research Dr. Singer has covered deeper analytic properties of partial differential equations on manifold turnout that depend on ideas from differential geometry. He made decisive advances in this direction and applied his understanding of geometry to the use of fiber bundles for Yang-Mills fields, sparking a convergence between theoretical physics and mathematics. Additionally, his spectacular ...
Aug 25, 2009 · CHANGE OF PACE When Isadore Singer began studying mathematics as a graduate student, he started down a path to help physicists investigate some of the most vexing problems in their field. (Photo courtesy of Matthew Danzico) Singer has continued to defy the clock, and the calendar, by staying active long past the conventional retirement age. In his seventies, he voluntarily took on the task of teaching calculus to freshmen—not as a professor, but as a teacher’s assistant, a job usually ...
