William Boone (mathematician)

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Nationality American Fields Mathematics Role Mathematician		Name William Boone Alma mater Princeton University Doctoral advisor Alonzo Church

Born January 16, 1920Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1920-01-16 ) Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignInstitute for Advanced Study Known for Boone–Higman theoremBoone–Rogers theoremNovikov–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.

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