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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
Raoul Bott

Born: September 24, 1923
Died: December 20, 2005 (aged 82)
Bio: Raoul Bott, ForMemRS was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel Bott Weil theorem.
Known for:
- Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology (1982)
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics
- Raoul Bott Collected Papers (1994)
- Topology and Lie Groups (1994)