Richard L. Bishop
| Richard L. Bishop | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1932 (age 83–84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Case Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Isadore Singer |
| Doctoral students | Stephanie B. Alexander |
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).
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, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ Information from Bishop's web page at UIUC, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- 1 2 Richard Lawrence Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Review of Geometry of Manifolds by W. Klingenberg, MR 0169148
- ↑ MR 0213981
- ↑ 1852066
- ↑ Review of Tensor Analysis on Manifolds by T. J. Willmore, MR 0224010
- ↑ MR 0615912
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-06-16.