Michael Boardman

Michael Boardman
Born
John Michael Boardman

(1938-02-13)13 February 1938
Manchester
Died18 March 2021(2021-03-18) (aged 83)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known foralgebraic topology and Differential geometry and topology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
ThesisOn stable homotopy theory and some applications (1965)
Doctoral advisorC. T. C. Wall[1]
Websitemathematics.jhu.edu/directory/j-michael-boardman/

John Michael Boardman (13 February 1938 – 18 March 2021) was a mathematician whose speciality was algebraic and differential topology. He was affiliated with the University of Cambridge, England and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Boardman was most widely known for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra.

He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1964. His thesis advisor was C. T. C. Wall.[1] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2] He died on 18 March 2021.[3]

Selected publications

  • Boardman, John M. (1967). "Singularities of differentiable maps". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 33: 21–57. doi:10.1007/BF02684585. MR 0231390. S2CID 55773382.
  • Boardman, John Michael (1999). "Conditionally convergent spectral sequences". Homotopy invariant algebraic structures (Baltimore, MD, 1998). Contemporary Mathematics. Vol. 239. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. pp. 49–84. doi:10.1090/conm/239/03597. ISBN 978-0-8218-1057-6. MR 1718076.

References

  1. ^ a b Michael Boardman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. ^ Wallach, Rachel (19 March 2021). "Mathematician J. Michael Boardman, pioneer of the field of homotopy, dies at 83". hub.jhu.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2021.

Further reading


Flag of United StatesScientist icon

This article about an American mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.