William Browder
Video Chapters
- Highlights (2:31)
- Childhood Interest in Mathematics (4:08)
- Father's Affiliation with the Communist Party (6:14)
- An Undergraduate at MIT (5:09)
- Graduate School at Princeton (5:14)
- Homology of Loop Spaces (5:40)
- The Years of Cornell (4:36)
- Cornell to Princeton (5:33)
- Sergei Novikov's Visit to US (4:44)
- Students at Princeton (5:38)
- Kervaire Invariant (2:47)
- My Favorite Year (3:47)
- The Importance of Having a POV (2:54)
- The Book on Surgery (2:10)
- Transformation Groups and Algebraic K (1:58)
- The Influence of Armand Borel (3:28)
- The Annals of Mathematics (3:01)
- Publishing Advice (2:24)
- American Mathematical Society (4:08)
- The David Committee (4:50)
- Chair of Math Department at Princeton (3:45)
- Supervising the Senior Thesis at Princeton (2:13)
- How Topology Has Changed (2:27)
- Overspecialization in Topology (2:01)
- How to Advise Students (3:11)
William Browder is a mathematician at Princeton University who has made important breakthroughs in topology and geometry. He is best known as one of the inventors of surgery theory, which provides a method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds. He has served as president of the American Mathematical Society and has received many honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
