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William Boone (mathematician)

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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Mathematics

Role
  
Mathematician


Name
  
William Boone

Alma mater
  
Princeton University

Doctoral advisor
  
Alonzo Church

William Boone (mathematician)

Born
  
January 16, 1920 Cincinnati, Ohio (
1920-01-16
)

Institutions
  
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Institute for Advanced Study

Known for
  
Boone–Higman theorem Boone–Rogers theorem Novikov–Boone theorem

Died
  
September 14, 1983, Urbana, Illinois, United States

Education
  
Princeton University (1952)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

William Werner Boone (Cincinnati, 16 January 1920 – Urbana, Illinois, 14 September 1983) was an American mathematician. Alonzo Church was his Ph.D. advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Selected publications

  • W. W. Boone, Decision problems about algebraic and logical systems as a whole and recursively enumerable degrees of unsolvability. 1968 Contributions to Math. Logic (Colloquium, Hannover, 1966), North-Holland, Amsterdam.
  • W. W. Boone, Roger Lyndon, Frank Cannonito, Word Problems: Decision Problem in Group Theory, North-Holland, 1973.

    • References

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