Isadore Singer
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Not to be confused with Isidore Singer.
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.[1][2][3]
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Born | May 3, 1924 |
Died | February 11, 2021(2021-02-11) (aged 96) Boxborough, Massachusetts, US |
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Rosemary Singer (m. 1956) |
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Fields | Mathematics |
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Thesis | Lie Algebras of Unbounded Operators (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Irving Segal |
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Singer is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah, proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962, which paved the way for new interactions between pure mathematics and theoretical physics.[4] In early 1980s, while a professor at Berkeley, Singer co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) with Shiing-Shen Chern and Calvin Moore.[5][6]