Robert Evert Stong

Robert Evert Stong (August 23, 1936, Oklahoma City – April 10, 2008, Charlottesville, Virginia) was a mathematician at the University of Virginia who proved the Hattori–Stong theorem.

Stong earned a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1962. His Ph.D. dissertation, Some relations among characteristic classes and numbers, was written under the supervision of Richard Lashof. After serving with the United States Army (1962–64), he went to the University of Oxford as a post-doctoral fellow (1964–66), and then to Princeton University as faculty (1966–68). In 1968 he became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, where he taught until his retirement in 2007.

Publications
  • Stong, Robert E. (1966). "Finite topological spaces". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 123: 325–340. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1966-0195042-2. MR 0195042.
  • Stong, Robert E. (1968). Notes on cobordism theory (PDF). Mathematical notes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. MR 0248858. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-23.
  • Kosniowski, Czes; Stong, Robert E. (1978). "Involutions and characteristic numbers". Topology. 17 (4): 309–330. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(78)90001-0. MR 0516213.
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