Michael Boardman
British mathematician (1938–2021)
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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.
Born
13 February 1938
John Michael Boardman
13 February 1938
Died18 March 2021 (aged 83)
AlmamaterUniversity of Cambridge
Knownforalgebraic topology and Differential geometry and topology
Michael Boardman | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Michael Boardman 13 February 1938 |
| Died | 18 March 2021 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | algebraic topology and Differential geometry and topology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | On stable homotopy theory and some applications (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. T. C. Wall[1] |
| Website | mathematics |
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.
