Calvin C. Moore (born November 2, 1936 in

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) is an American mathematician who works in the theory of

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s and

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s. Moore graduated from

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with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and with a

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in 1960 under the supervision of

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(''Extensions and cohomology theory of locally compact groups''). In 1961 he became assistant professor at the

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and professor in 1966. From 1977 to 1980, he was director of the Center for Pure and Applied mathematics. With

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and

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, he co-founded

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in 1982. From 1964 to 1965 he was at the

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in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a fellow of the

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. From 1965 to 1967 he was a

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. From 1971 to 1979 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the

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, whose fellow he is. Since 1977, he is co-editor of the ''

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''. From 1978 to 1979 he was a Miller research professor at Berkeley. He has written on a history of mathematics at Berkeley. His students include Roger Howe,

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and .

Writings

* With Claude Schochet, ''Global Analysis on Foliated Spaces'', MSRI Publications, Springer Verlag 1988, 2nd ed.,

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2006.

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