Thomas Goodwillie (mathematician)
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Princeton University (Ph.D., 1982)
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Thomas G. Goodwillie (born 1954) is an American mathematician and professor at Brown University who has made fundamental contributions to algebraic and geometric topology. He is especially famous for developing the concept of the calculus of functors, often also named Goodwillie calculus.
Life
While studying at Harvard University, Goodwillie became a Putnam Fellow in 1974 and 1975.{{cite web|title=Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners |url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |publisher=Mathematical Association of America|access-date=December 13, 2021}} He then studied at Princeton University, where he completed his PhD in 1982, under the supervision of Wu-Chung Hsiang.{{MathGenealogy |id=11357}} He returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow in 1979, and was an associate professor (without tenure) at Harvard from 1982 to 1987. In 1987 he was hired with tenure by Brown University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1991.{{cite web|title = Goodwillie's CV|url=https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/t/tgoodwil_cv.pdf?dt=174710101}}
He developed the calculus of functors in a series of three papers in the 1990s and 2000s,T. Goodwillie, Calculus I: The first derivative of pseudoisotopy theory, K-theory 4 (1990), 1-27.T. Goodwillie, Calculus II: Analytic functors, K-theory 5 (1992), 295-332.T. Goodwillie, Calculus III: Taylor series, Geom. Topol. 7 (2003), 645-711. which have since been expanded and applied in a number of areas, including the theory of smooth manifolds, algebraic K-theory, and homotopy theory.{{cite web|title = Workshop at Oberwolfach about Goodwillie Calculus|url=https://opc.mfo.de/show_workshop?id=82 }}
Recognition
Goodwillie received a Sloan Fellowship and the Harriet S. Sheridan Award. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.{{cite web|title = List of fellows of the AMS|url=http://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows.cgi#g}}
A conference with leading topologists as speakers was organized on the occasion of his 60th birthday.{{cite web|title = Goodwillie's birthday conference|url=https://sites.google.com/a/wellesley.edu/dubrovnik-topology-2014/}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.math.brown.edu/~tomg/ Website at Brown University]
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians
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