Isadore Manuel Singer was an American mathematician.
16 Facts About Isadore Singer
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Isadore Singer was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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In early 1980s, while a professor at Berkeley, Isadore Singer co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute with Shiing-Shen Chern and Calvin Moore.
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Isadore Singer was born on May 3,1924, in Detroit, Michigan, to Polish Jewish immigrants.
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Isadore Singer learned English swiftly and subsequently taught it to the rest of his family.
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Isadore Singer was born with a prominent hemangioma birthmark under his right eye.
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Isadore Singer studied physics at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1944 after just two-and-a-half years so that he could join the military.
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Isadore Singer was stationed in the US Army in the Philippines, where he was a radar officer.
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Isadore Singer undertook correspondence courses in mathematics at night in order to satisfy the prerequisites for relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Isadore Singer held a postdoctoral fellowship as a CLE Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950.
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Isadore Singer returned to MIT in 1983 as the first John D MacArthur Professor, before being appointed as an Institute Professor in 1987.
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Isadore Singer was one of the founders of the independent non-profit Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, based in Berkeley, California.
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Isadore Singer died on February 11,2021, at his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
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Isadore Singer was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Isadore Singer was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Isadore Singer's brother Sidney was a particle physicist with Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and predeceased him in 2016.