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Ronald G. Douglas

Date of Birth 10-December-1938
Place of Birth Osgood
(Ripley County, Indiana, Center Township, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Mathematician
Ronald George Douglas is an American mathematician, best known for his work on operator algebras. Douglas was born in Osgood, Indiana. He was an undergraduate at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Louisiana State University as a student of Pasquale Porcelli. He was at the University of Michigan until 1969, when he moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Beginning in 1986 he moved into university administration, eventually becoming Vice Provost at Stony Brook in 1990, and Provost at Texas A&M University from 1996 until 2002. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M. He has three children, including Michael R. Douglas, a noted string theorist. Among his best-known contributions to science is a 1977 paper with Lawrence G. Brown and Peter A. Fillmore, which introduced techniques from algebraic topology into the theory of operator algebras. This work was an important precursor to noncommutative geometry as later developed by Alain Connes among others. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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