John Roe (mathematician)

John Roe (6 October 1959 – 9 March 2018[1]) was a British mathematician.

John Roe
John Roe, Oberwolfach 2004
Born(1959-10-06)6 October 1959
Shropshire, England, UK
Died9 March 2018(2018-03-09) (aged 58)
AwardsWhitehead Prize (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University

Roe grew up in the countryside in Shropshire. He went to Rugby School, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, and received his D.Phil. in 1985 from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Michael Atiyah.[2] As a post-doctoral student, he was at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, and then a tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. From 1998 until shortly before his death he was a professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

His research interests center around index theorems, coarse geometry, operator algebras, noncommutative geometry, and the Novikov conjecture in differential topology. He was an editor of the Journal of Noncommutative Geometry and the Journal of Topology.

In 1996 he was awarded the Whitehead Prize. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Books

gollark: > In capitalism, being selfish and ruthless tends to give you more profit and thus economical power. That's why most of the elite are bad, while so many of the poor have good hearts. Though the pressure to survive also ruins and corrupts the poor.Have you never heard of positive-sum stuff? Have you actually *checked* this in any way or are you just pulling in a bunch of stereotypes?
gollark: Newtonian ethics and all.
gollark: It would only practically work if people cared enough to expend significant resources locally to help people far away, and humans don't seem to like that.
gollark: This is a values problem, not an economic system one.
gollark: The expected value of demanding for communism appears substantially lower than that of actually helping people with malaria.

References

  1. "John Roe". John Roe. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. John Roe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-27.
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