News Release
MARK GORESKY AND
ROBERT MACPHERSON RECEIVE
AMS STEELE PRIZE
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January 7, 2002
PROVIDENCE, RI---Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson, both of the
School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, will jointly receive the 2002 Leroy P. Steele Prize for
a Seminal Contribution to Research. Presented annually by the
American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the
highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded
today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego,
California.
Professors Goresky and MacPherson are being honored for their
two papers, "Intersection homology theory," (Topology 19
(1980), no. 2, 135-162) and "Intersection homology. II."
(Invent. Math. 72 (1983), no. 1, 77-129), which indicate how
to extend Poincaré Duality to many singular spaces. The
prize citation states that these two papers "made possible
investigations across a great spectrum of mathematics which further
extended key classical manifold phenomena and methods to singular
varieties and used these to solve well-known problems."
Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.
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