Isadore Singer

Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1][2][3]

Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer, 1977
Born	Isadore Manuel Singer (1924-05-03)May 3, 1924 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	February 11, 2021(2021-02-11) (aged 96) Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan (BA) University of Chicago (MS, PhD)
Known for	Atiyah–Singer index theorem
Spouse	Rosemary Singer (m. 1956)
Awards	Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969) National Medal of Science (1983) Wigner Medal (1988) Steele Prize (2000) Abel Prize (2004)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA
Doctoral advisor	Irving Segal
Doctoral students	Richard L. Bishop Andrew Browder David G. Ebin Dan Freed Conan Nai-Chung Leung John Lott Hugo Rossi Linda Rothschild Gerald Schwarz Nancy K. Stanton Frank W. Warner [de]

Singer was known for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962,.^[4]

Singer died on February 11, 2021 at his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts at the age of 96.^[5]