Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (born 1923)

Raoul Bott

Hungarian-American mathematician

Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.