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American mathematician (1936–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Albert Wolf (October 18, 1936 – August 14, 2023) was an American mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley.
Joseph A. Wolf | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | October 18, 1936
Died | August 14, 2023 86) | (aged
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Awards | Humboldt Research Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Shiing-Shen Chern |
Wolf graduated from at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and with his master's degree in 1957 and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern in 1959 (On the manifolds covered by a given compact, connected Riemannian homogeneous manifold).[1] From 1960 to 1962, as a post-doctoral researcher, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (and again from 1965 to 1966). In 1962 he was assistant professor and since 1966 he has been professor at Berkeley.
Wolf considered applications of group theory to differential geometry and complex manifolds and applications of harmonic analysis to the theory of elementary particles and control theory. In 1994 he received the Humboldt Research Award and in 1977 the Medal of the University of Liège. In 1989 he received an honorary professorship at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina. From 1972 to 1973 and from 1983 to 1984, he was a Miller Research Professor in Berkeley.
Wolf was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[2] and member of the Swiss Mathematical Society. From 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Fellow. He held a Miller Research Professorship twice, in the 1972–73 and 1983–84 academic years.
Joseph A. Wolf died on August 14, 2023, at the age of 86.[3]
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