Pierre Conner

Pierre Euclide Conner Jr. (born June 27, 1932 in Houston , Texas - † February 3, 2018 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American mathematician who studied algebraic topology and differential topology (especially cobordism theory ).

life and work

Conner received his PhD in 1955 from Princeton University under Donald Spencer ( The Greens and Neumanns Problems for Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds ). As a postdoc he was at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1955 to 1957 (and again from 1961/62) . He was a professor at the University of Virginia from the 1960s , where he worked closely with his colleague Edwin E. Floyd , and from the mid-1970s at Louisiana State University . He was a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and from 1960 a Sloan Research Fellow .

Conner-Floyd isomorphisms and Conner-Floyd-Chern classes are named after him and Floyd.

Fonts (selection)

Sole authorship:

• Seminar on periodic maps (Lecture notes in mathematics; BD. 46). Springer, Berlin 1966.
• Lecture on the action of a finite group (Lecture notes in mathematics; Vol. 73). Springer, Berlin 1968.
• The Neumann's problem for differential forms on Riemannian manifolds (Memoirs of the AMS; Vol. 20). AMS, Providence, RI 1961.

Together with Edwin E. Floyd:

• Differential periodic maps . In: Bulletin AMS , Vol. 68 (1962), pp. 76ff ISSN  0002-9904
  • Differentiable periodic maps (results of mathematics and its border areas / NF; Vol. 33). 2nd edition Springer, Berlin 1979.
• The relation of cobordism to K-theories (Lecture notes in Mathematics; Vol. 28). Springer, Berlin 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Euclide Conner, Jr. In: The Times-Picayune. Legacy.com, February 9, 2018, accessed February 12, 2018 . 
2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ↑ Conner-Floyd Isomorphism , nLab