Michael Boardman

John Michael Boardman is a mathematician whose speciality is algebraic and differential topology. He was formerly at the University of Cambridge, England; he is currently a full professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland USA. Boardman is most widely known for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1964. His thesis advisor was C. T. C. Wall.^[1] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

Selected publications

• Boardman, John M., Singularities of differentiable maps, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. No. 33 (1967) 21–57.
• Boardman, J. M. (1999). "Conditionally convergent spectral sequences". Contemporary Mathematics 239: 49–84. doi:10.1090/conm/239/03597.

References

1. Michael Boardman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.

Additional reading

• "Homotopy invariant algebraic structures. A conference in honor of J. Michael Boardman", Edited by Jean-Pierre Meyer, Jack Morava and W. Stephen Wilson, Contemporary Mathematics, 239, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1999, xii+376 pp. ISBN 0-8218-1057-X
• Venere, Emil (April 27, 1998), "Somehow, It All Adds Up. Profile: Math mogul J. Michael Boardman earns accolades from his peers", The Johns Hopkins Gazette 27 (32)

External links

• Home page at Johns Hopkins