Robert Massey Switzer

Robert Massey Switzer Jr. (born January 29, 1940 in Kingsport (Tennessee) ) is an American mathematician who studies algebraic topology .

Switzer received his doctorate in 1965 under Hans Samelson at Stanford University (Homology with Local Coefficients and Applications to Fiber Spaces). He then spent five years at the University of Manchester and then at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he became a professor in 1973 and where he was until his retirement in 2005.

He wrote a textbook on algebraic topology in Springer's basic teaching series. The book also covers advanced topics such as calculating different cobordism groups and the stable homotopy groups of spheres. In the 1960s he dealt with obstruction theory of holomorphic vector bundles on projective spaces. From the mid-1980s he turned to computer science and published books on operating systems and the object-oriented programming language Eiffel .

Fonts

• Algebraic topology: homotopy and homology, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften , Springer 1975, Reprint in the series Classics in Mathematics 2002
• with Nigel Ray, Larry Taylor: ormal structures and bordism theory, with applications to MSp *, Memoirs AMS, 1977
• Operating Systems. A practical approach, Prentice-Hall 1993
• Eiffel, an introduction, Prentice-Hall 1993

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of birth, the Kürschner Scholar Calendar 2009
2. ↑ Robert Massey Switzer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
3. ^ Farewell colloquium at the University of Göttingen in 2005