Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.
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24 September 1923 Budapest, Hungary
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Died |
20 December 2005 (aged 82) San Diego, California, United States
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Zodiac | Libra |
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