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2000 年沃爾夫獎得主博特訪談

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訪    談    者 傑克森 Allyn Jackson

受訪者簡介 博特(Raoul Bott,1923–2005)是匈裔美國數學家,從工程轉入數學,1959 年於哈佛大學任職至退休。博特是20 世紀重要的幾何與拓樸學家,他最知名的貢獻博特週期性定理是K 理論的核心骨幹。他是2000 年沃爾夫獎的得主。

訪談者簡介    傑克森2017 年底剛卸任美國數學學會會訊Notices 的副主編與總主筆。

譯        者
 周樹靜

譯者簡介 周樹靜是臺灣數學科普譯者。

本文出處    本文是2000 年10 月傑克森兩度訪談博特的編輯稿,以 "Interview with Raoul Bott" 之名發表於AMS Notices Apr. 2001。本刊感謝訪談者與AMS 同意翻譯和刊載。

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在括號中的編號出自《博特全集》的文章編號。其資訊如下:Raoul Bott: Collected Papers, volumes 1–4, Robert D. MacPherson, Editor, Birkhäuser, 1994

[1] R. BOTT and R. J. DUFFIN, Impedance synthesis without use of transformers, J. Appl. Phys. 20 (1949), 816.
[2] ([8]) RAOUL BOTT, On torsion in Lie groups, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 40 (1954), 586–588.
[3] ([22]) RAOUL BOTT and HANS SAMELSON, Applications of the theory of Morse to symmetric spaces, Amer. J. Math. 80 (1958), 964–1029.
[4] ([24]) RAOUL BOTT, The stable homotopy of the classical groups, Ann. of Math. (2) 70 (1959), 313–337.

[5] ([15]) RAOUL BOTT , Homogeneous vector bundles, Ann. of Math. (2) 66 (1957), 203–248.

[6]([35]) MICHAEL ATIYAH and RAOUL BOTT, On the periodicity theorem for complex vector bundles, Acta Math. 112 (1964), 229–247.
[7]([42]) MICHAEL ATIYAH and RAOUL BOTT , A Lefschetz fixed point formula for elliptic complexes. I, Ann. of Math. (2) 86 (1967), 374–407.
[8]([44]) MICHAEL ATIYAH and RAOUL BOTT , A Lefschetz fixed point formula for elliptic complexes. II. Applications, Ann. of Math. (2) 88(1968), 451–491.
[9]([81]) M. F. ATIYAH and R. BOTT, The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 308 (1983), no. 1505, 523–615.
[10]([52]) RAOUL BOTT, On topological obstructions to integrability. Actes du Congrès International des Mathématiciens (Nice, 1970), Tome 1, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1971, pp. 27–36.
[11]([56]) R. BOTT and A. HAEFLIGER, On characteristic classes of $\Gamma$-foliations, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972), 1039–1044.