55. Felix E. Browder

President 1999–2000

Ph.D. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1948

Browder headed the University of Chicago's mathematics department for 12 years, and also held posts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Brandeis University and Yale University, before going to Rutgers University in 1986 as the university's first vice president for research. He was well known for his critical work in the development of nonlinear functional analysis, for his work in applying both linear and nonlinear functional analysis to partial differential equations, and for his strong support of efforts to improve undergraduate and graduate education in the mathematical sciences. He proposed and chaired the program for the Mathematical Challenges of the 21^st Century, a major event at the University of California, Los Angeles, in celebration of World Mathematical Year 2000. Browder was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the AMS.

Additional information

• MR Author Profile
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Nomination for Felix Browder," (for AMS President Elect), by Jerry Bona, Notices of the AMS, September 1997, p. 954.
• "Interview with AMS President Felix Browder," by Allyn Jackson, Notices of the AMS, March 1999, p.334.
• "Browder, Coifman, and Kadanoff Receive 2000 National Medals of Science," compiled from NSF news releases, Notices of the AMS, May 2000, p.569.
• Fellow of the AMS