Raoul Bott
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Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functi
Raoul Bott in Berkeley, 1986
Michael Atiyah
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded
Raoul Bott
…work, he introduced Morse–Bott functions, an important generalization of Morse functions. This led to his role as collaborator over many years with Michael Atiyah, initially via the part played by periodicity in K-theory. Bott made important contributions towards the index theorem, especially in formulating related…
Michael Atiyah in 2007
Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge, where Atiyah was a student and later Master
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Atiyah was professor from 1969 to 1972
The old Mathematical Institute (now the Department of Statistics) in Oxford, where Atiyah supervised many of his students