Isidore singer biography paper

  • Isadore Singer was an American mathematician best known for the Atiyah-Singer index theorem which had great influence in unifying mathematics and physics.
  • In full: Isadore Manuel Singer ; Born: May 3, 1924, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. ; Died: February 11, 2021, Boxborough, Massachusetts (aged 96).
  • A descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day.

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    Isadore M. Singer

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    INTERVIEWER:Sothisisthe150thanniversarycelebrationinterviewwithProfessorIsadoreSinger.Andletmestartbyasking,whereyouwereborn?Where'dyougrowup?

    SINGER:IwasborninDetroit,Michigan.I'llstartoveragain.

    INTERVIEWER:Okay.

    SINGER:WherewasIborn?IwasborninDetroit,Michigan,in1924,andIgrewupthere.MyparentscamefromPolandandemigratedtoToronto,Canada,wheretheymetandmarried.AndthentheycametoDetroitin1923.

    INTERVIEWER:Andwhatdidyourparentsdo?Didtheyalsowork?

    SINGER:Myfatherwasaprinterandmymotheraseamstress.Whentheyarrived,myfathertellsastorythattheprinters'unionwasonstrike.Andtheyaskedhimnottobreakthestrikeandgavehim$5adaynottodothat,andheagreed.HewrotehismotherbackinPolandthatit is,infact,truethatthestreetsoftheUnitedStateswerepavedwithgold.

    WewereverypoorduringtheDepression.It'savividmemoryforme,andsoI'mparticularlyconcernedaboutpeoplewhoareoutofjobsnow,becausemyfatherwasoutofajobforayearorso.Andwesufferedbadlyatthattime.

    INTERVIEWER:Werethereanyparticula

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    SINGER, ISIDORE, editor (originator of THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA) and writer, b. Weisskirchen, Moravia, 1859; d. New York city, 1939. He studied at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin (Ph.D., 1884), and founded and published the

    Allgemeine Osterreichische Literaturzeitung (1884-85).

    Becoming a literary secretary to Count Alexandre Foucher de Careil, French ambassador at Vienna, he followed him to Paris, where he joined the press bureau of the French Foreign Office and also became editor-in-chief of

    La vraie parole (1893-94). Through this paper, which he founded to counteract the anti-Semitism propagated by Edouard Drumont's La Libre parole, Singer defended Alfred Dreyfus fearlessly.

    Encouraged bygd an editorial written for the

    American Hebrew Singer went to New York city (1895) to carry out his life work, The Jewish Encyclopedia. Having done the preliminary work together with Richard J. H. Gottheil and Kaufmann Kohler, he became managing editor of the encyclopedia,

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    Born
    3 May 1924
    Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Died
    11 February 2021
    Boxborough, Massachusetts, USA
    Summary
    Isadore Singer was an American mathematician best known for the Atiyah-Singer index theorem which had great influence in unifying mathematics and physics.

    Biography

    Isadore Singer is known as Is or Iz. His parents, Simon Singer and Freda Rose, were Polish. They emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1917 and married in that city before moving to Detroit, Michigan. Isadore enjoyed both science and reading while at school but when he entered the University of Michigan in September 1941 he decided to study physics rather than English literature. Because of World War II, courses were compressed and he graduated with a B.S. in January 1944. He then spent three years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. After initial training, Singer was sent to the Philippines to run a Signal Corps school. While there he spent the evenings preparing himself for studying physics
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