Pierre Euclide Conner (27 June 1932,

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) was an American mathematician, who worked on

algebraic topology Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariant (mathematics), invariants that classification theorem, classify topological spaces up t ...

and

differential topology In mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with the topological properties and smooth properties of smooth manifolds. In this sense differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which ...

(especially

cobordism In mathematics, cobordism is a fundamental equivalence relation on the class of compact space, compact manifolds of the same dimension, set up using the concept of the boundary (topology), boundary (French ''wikt:bord#French, bord'', giving ''cob ...

theory). In 1955 Conner received his Ph.D. from

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under Donald Spencer with thesis ''The Green's and Neumann's Problems for Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds''. He was a post-doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957 (and again in 1961–1962) at the

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. He was in the 1960s a professor at the

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, where he collaborated with his colleague Edwin E. Floyd, and then in the 1970s a professor at

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. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-10.

Publications

Articles

* *with E. E. Floyd: *with E. E. Floyd: *

Books

*with E. E. Floyd: Differentiable periodic maps, Springer, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 1964, 2nd edn. 1979 *with E. E. Floyd: The relation of cobordism to K-theories, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 28, 1966 *Seminar on periodic maps, Springer 1966

References

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