| Isadore Singer AKA Isadore Manuel Singer Born: 3-May-1924
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Atiyah-Singer index theorem Military service: US Army (1944-47) Mathematician Isadore Singer, working with his British colleague Michael Atiyah, developed the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. It has applications in theoretical physics, including the theory of anomalies, gauge theory, monopoles, and string theory, and has increased interdisciplinary collaborations between pure mathematics and theoretical particle physicists. Wife: Rosemarie
Daughter: Annabelle Catherine Singer Schrock
University: BS Mathematics, University of Michigan (1944)
University: MA Mathematics, University of Chicago (1948)
University: PhD Mathematics, University of Chicago (1950)
Teacher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1950-52)
Teacher: University of California at Los Angeles (1952-53)
Teacher: Columbia University (1953-54)
Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1954-77)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1977-87)
Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987-)
Abel Prize 2004 (with Michael Atiyah)
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2000
American Mathematical Society Award for Distinguished Public Service 1992
Wigner Medal 1988
National Medal of Science 1983
Bôcher Prize 1969
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
American Mathematical Society Vice President (1970-72)
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Differential Geometry: Lectures (1962)
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