Nigel David Higson (born 1963[1]) is a Canadian math professor at Pennsylvania State University who received the 1996 Coxeter–James Prize. His doctorate came from Dalhousie University in 1985, under the supervision of Peter Fillmore.[2] He works in the fields of operator algebra and K-theory.[3] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[4] In 2012 he was chosen as one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Library of Congress
  2. ↑ Nigel Higson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Coxeter-James Prize pdf
  4. ↑ Higson, Nigel (1998). "The Baum-Connes Conjecture". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 637–646.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-06-12.


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