William Fulton

William Fulton

William Fulton (born 1939) is an American algebraic geometer. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1961 and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1966. Fulton worked at Princeton and Brandeis University from 1965 until 1970, when he began teaching at Brown. In 1987 he moved to the University of Chicago. [http://www.ams.org/notices/199611/comm-steele.pdf Announcement of the] 1996 Steele Prizes at the American Mathematical Society web site, accessed 21-II-2007.] He is currently (2007) a professor at the University of Michigan. [ [http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/people/facultyAlpha.php University of Michigan mathematics department, alphabetical faculty listing] , accessed 21-II-2007.]

Fulton is known as the author or coauthor of a number of popular texts, including "Algebraic Curves" and "Representation Theory". In 1996 he received the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition for his text "Intersection Theory". Fulton is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.

elected works

* "Algebraic Curves: An Introduction To Algebraic Geometry", with Richard Weiss. New York: Benjamin, 1969. Reprint ed.: Redwood City, CA, USA: Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Classics, 1989. ISBN 0-201-51010-3.
* | year=1998 | volume=2 | edition=2nd
* (with Joe Harris) Citation | title=Representation Theory, A First Course | publisher=Springer-Verlag | location=Berlin, New York | series=Graduate Texts in Mathematics | isbn=978-0-387-97495-8 | id=MathSciNet | id = 1153249 | year=1991 | volume=129

References

External links

* [http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~wfulton/ Fulton's home page] at the University of Michigan


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