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Born

24 September
Budapest, Hungary

Died

20 December
San Diego, USA

Summary

Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-born mathematician who made fundamental contributions to topology and differential geometry.

Biography

Raoul Bott's father was a Roman Catholic of Austrian descent, while his mother was Jewish of Hungarian descent.

His parents split up soon after he was born and he was brought up by his mother as a Catholic. His mother remarried and Raoul lived with his mother and step father, who was a German speaking Czech, in Slovakia. His early education was not a great success, and he certainly did not show the great potential that, with hindsight, we can now say that he must have had.

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In fact he showed more promise at using his hands than at the more academic side of education. Even as a very young boy he began experimenting with electricity and building pieces of electrical apparatus.

If his early education was not successful it was certainly not becaus