Isadore M. Singer, Abel Prize 2004

Isadore Manuel Singer was an American mathematician. He was an 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.

Singer is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962, which paved the way for new interactions between pure mathematics and theoretical physics. In early 1980s, while a professor at Berkeley, Singer co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) with Shiing-Shen Chern and Calvin Moore.

Awards

• Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969)
• National Medal of Science (1983)
• Wigner Medal (1988)
• Steele Prize (2000)
• Abel Prize (2004)