caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place awards image_size nationality fields workplaces doctoral_students birth_date residence image article_title name alma_mater
raoul bott in 1986 richard duffin 20 december 2005 san diego , california budapest , hungary veblen -lrb- 1987 -rrb- steele prize -lrb- 1990 -rrb- wolf prize prize -lrb- 2000 -rrb- -lrb- 1964 -rrb- national medal of science 250px hungarian american mathematics university of michigan in ann arbor harvard university edward stephen smale andrás szenes b. curtis harold edwards robert macpherson daniel quillen 24 september 1923 czechoslovakia united states canada raoul bott 1986.jpeg raoul bott
 raoul bott mcgill university carnegie mellon university
raoul bott

raoul bott , -lrb- september 24 , 1923 -- december 20 , 2005 -rrb- was a hungarian-american mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense .
he is best known for his bott periodicity theorem , the morse -- bott functions which he used in this context , and the borel -- bott -- weil theorem .
