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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.
