Richard L. Bishop
Richard Lawrence Bishop (born c. 1932) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] The Bishop–Gromov inequality in Riemannian geometry is named after him (with Mikhail Gromov).
Richard L. Bishop | |
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Born | c. 1932 (age 87–88) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Case Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Doctoral advisor | Isadore Singer |
Doctoral students | Stephanie B. Alexander |
Bishop went to Case Institute of Technology as an undergraduate, earning a B.S. in 1954. Next he earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, and immediately joined the UIUC faculty.[2] His thesis, On Imbeddings and Holonomy, was supervised by Isadore Singer.[3] At UIUC, his doctoral students included future UIUC colleague Stephanie B. Alexander.[3] He is the author of Geometry of Manifolds (with Richard J. Crittenden, AMS Chelsea Publishing, 1964,[4] translated into Russian 1967[5] and reprinted 2001[6]) and Tensor Analysis on Manifolds (with Samuel I. Goldberg, Macmillan, 1968,[7] reprinted by Dover Books on Mathematics, 1980[8]).
In 2013, Bishop became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9]
References
- Emeritus faculty Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- Information from Bishop's web page at UIUC, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- Richard Lawrence Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Review of Geometry of Manifolds by W. Klingenberg, MR0169148
- MR0213981
- 1852066
- Review of Tensor Analysis on Manifolds by T. J. Willmore, MR0224010
- MR0615912
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-06-16.