Robert MacPherson

Robert MacPherson (born May 25 1944, Lakewood, Ohio) is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is best known for the invention of intersection homology with Mark Goresky, whose thesis he directed at Brown University. MacPherson was previously employed at Brown University, the University of Paris, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, MacPherson received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1970. His thesis, written under the direction of Raoul Bott, was entitled "Singularities of Maps and Characteristic Classes".

elected publications

* Goresky, Mark; MacPherson, Robert, "La dualité de Poincaré pour les espaces singuliers", C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. A-B 284 (1977), no. 24, A1549–A1551. MathSciNet|id=0440533
* Goresky, Mark; MacPherson, Robert, "Intersection homology theory", Topology 19 (1980), no. 2, 135–162. DOI|10.1016/0040-9383(80)90003-8 MathSciNet|id=0572580
* Goresky, Mark; MacPherson, Robert, "Intersection homology. II", Inventiones Mathematicae 72 (1983), no. 1, 77–129. DOI|10.1007/BF01389130 MathSciNet|id=0696691

External links

*MathGenealogy|id=11546
* [http://www.math.ias.edu/pages/people/faculty/robert-d.-macpherson.php IAS page]
* [http://www.math.ias.edu/pages/people/faculty/rdm/BriefCVMacP.html C.V.]
* [http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/macpherson/talk.pdf The work of Robert MacPherson]