Conner, Pierre
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| Birthname | Pierre Euclide Conner Jr. | ||||
| born on | 27 June 1932 at 11:45 (= 11:45 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Houston, Texas, 29n46, 95w22 | ||||
| Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   05°49'   26°22 Asc. 26°57'
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Biography
American mathematician, who works on algebraic topology and differential topology (especially cobordism theory).
In 1955, Conner received his PhD from Princeton University under Donald Spencer with the thesis "The Green's and Neumann's Problems for Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds." He was a post-doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957 (and again in 1961–1962) at the Institute for Advanced Study. In the 1960s he was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he collaborated with his colleague Edwin E. Floyd, and then in the 1970s a professor at Louisiana State University.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate [1].
Categories
- Vocation : Science : Mathematics/ Statistics (Mathematician)
