Felix Earl Browder was an American mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis.
15 Facts About Felix Browder
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Felix Browder received the National Medal of Science in 1999 and was President of the American Mathematical Society until 2000.
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Felix Earl Browder was born in 1927 in Moscow, Russia, while his American father Earl Browder, born in Wichita, Kansas, was living and working there.
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Felix Browder had gone to the Soviet Union in 1927.
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Felix Browder's mother was Raissa Berkmann, a Russian Jewish woman from St Petersburg whom Browder met and married while living in the Soviet Union.
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Felix Browder was a child prodigy in mathematics; he entered MIT at age 16 in 1944 and graduated in 1946 with his first degree in mathematics.
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Felix Browder had an academic career, encountering difficulty in the 1950s in getting work during the McCarthy era because of his father's communist activities.
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Felix Browder headed the University of Chicago's mathematics department for 12 years.
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Felix Browder held posts at MIT, Boston University, Brandeis and Yale.
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Felix Browder served as president of the American Mathematical Society from 1999 to 2000.
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Felix Browder recounted the moves against mathematics in France by Claude Allegre as problematic.
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Felix Browder was known for his personal library, which contained some thirty-five thousand books.
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Felix Browder married Eva Tislowitz in 1949, born to Jewish parents.
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The late Dr Felix Browder had two younger brothers who were research mathematicians, William and Andrew Felix Browder.
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Felix Browder died in 2016 at home in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 89.