Franklin Paul Peterson

Franklin Paul Peterson (born August 27, 1930 in Aurora (Illinois) , † September 1, 2000 in Washington, DC ) was an American mathematician who studied algebraic topology .

Live and act

Peterson studied at Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and received his doctorate in 1955 from Princeton University with Norman Steenrod ( Generalized cohomotopy groups ). He was then a lecturer at Princeton and was from 1958 Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , with a full professorship from 1965. In 1960 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

He dealt with cohomology operations and among other things with immersions in differential topology, and worked here and in other areas with Edgar H. Brown . With Brown he also introduced Brown-Peterson cohomologies in 1966.

From 1974 to 1998 he was treasurer of the American Mathematical Society , whose transactions he published from 1966 to 1970. In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His PhD students include Ethan Devinatz , Paul Goerss , David J. Anick, and W. Stephen Wilson .

Fonts

• with EH Brown: Algebraic bordism groups. In: Annals of Mathematics . Series 2, Volume 79, No. 3, 1964, pp. 616-622, doi : 10.2307 / 1970411
• with EH Brown: Relations among characteristic classes. I. In: Topology. Volume 3, Supplement 1, 1964, pp. 39-52, doi : 10.1016 / 0040-9383 (64) 90004-7 .
• with EH Brown: A spectrum whose cohomology is the algebra of reduced powers. ${\displaystyle Z_{p}}$ ${\displaystyle p^{th}}$In: Topology. Vol. 5, No. 2, 1966, pp. 149-154, doi : 10.1016 / 0040-9383 (66) 90015-2 .
• with EH Brown, D. Anderson: Spin cobordism. In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . Volume 72, No. 2, 1966, pp. 256-260, doi : 10.1090 / S0002-9904-1966-11486-6 .
• as editor: The Steenrod algebra and its applications: a conference to celebrate NE Steenrod's sixtieth birthday. Proceedings of the Conference held at the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio March 30th – April 4th, 1970 (= Lecture Notes in Mathematics . 168). Springer, Berlin et al. 1970, ISBN 3-540-05300-X .
• with EH Brown: On immersions of manifolds. ${\displaystyle n}$In: Advances in Mathematics . Volume 24, No. 1, 1977, pp. 74-77, doi : 10.1016 / S0001-8708 (77) 80004-2 .
• with EH Brown: A universal space for normal bundles of manifolds. ${\displaystyle n}$In: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici . Vol. 54, 1979, pp. 405-430 .

Web links

• Obituary in MIT News, 2000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franklin Paul Peterson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Jean Lannes La conjecture des immersions, d'après RL Cohen , Edgar H. Brown, Franklin Paul Peterson et al., Séminaire Bourbaki 594, 1981/82, numdam ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.