Deane Montgomery
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Deane Montgomery (1909–1992) was a topologist who served as President of the American Mathematical Society from 1961 to 1962.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1933; his dissertation advisor was Edward Chittenden.
In 1941 Montgomery was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1988, he was awarded the American Mathematical Society Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[edit] Publications
- Deane Montgomery and Leo Zippin, Topological Transformation Groups, Interscience Publishers, 1955.
[edit] External links
- Deane Montgomery at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Interview with Montgomery about his experience at Princeton
- A biography of Montgomery
- A Tribute to Deane Montgomery, by Ronald Fintushel
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