Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, xii+584 pp. 1982: (with Loring W. Tu) Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology. Graduate Texts in Mathematics #82. Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin. xiv+331 pp. 1969: Lectures on K(X). Mathematics Lecture Note Series W. A. Benjamin, New York-Amsterdam x+203 pp. See also Bott–Duffin inverse Parallelizable manifold Thom's and Bott's proofs of the Lefschetz hyperplane theorem References External links Commemorative website at Harvard Math Department "The Life and Works of Raoul Bott", by Loring Tu. "Raoul Bott, an Innovator in Mathematics, Dies at 82", The New York Times, January 8, 2006. 1923 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Hungarian Jews 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians Topologists Geometers Differential geometers Algebraic geometers Harvard University faculty University of Michigan faculty McGill University Faculty of Engineering alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni Foreign Members of the Royal Society National Medal of Science laureates Wolf Prize in Mathematics laureates Members of the French Academy of Sciences Hungarian Roman Catholics Deaths from cancer in California Hungarian emigrants to Canada Canadian emigrants to the United States Hungarian expatriates in Czechoslovakia