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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)