A celebration of the mathematical legacy of Raoul Bott - Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 403 p. : ill.) - CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, v. 50 2472-4890 .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction ; My parents' Montreal years and growing up with Raoul as my father ; Raoul Bott, McGill, the 1940s ; Iron rings, Doctor Honoris Causa Raoul Bott, Carl Herz, and a hidden hand ; The Bott-Duffin synthesis of electrical circuits ; Raoul Bott as we knew him ; Working with Raoul Bott: From geometry to physics ; The algorithmic side of Riemann's mathematics ; Actions of Lie groups and Lie algebras on manifolds ; PDE from the point of view of multiplier ideals ; Dirac operator and

9781470415846 (online)


Geometry.
Mathematical physics.