William Boone (mathematician)
American mathematician (1920–1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Werner Boone (16 January 1920 in Cincinnati – 14 September 1983 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American mathematician. He completed his undergrad degree as a part time student at the University of Cincinnati.[1]
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William Werner Boone | |
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Born | (1920-01-16)January 16, 1920 |
Died | September 14, 1983(1983-09-14) (aged 63) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Known for | Boone–Higman theorem Boone–Rogers theorem Novikov–Boone theorem |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Institute for Advanced Study |
Doctoral advisor | Alonzo Church |
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Alonzo Church was his Ph.D. advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Pyotr Novikov showed in 1955 that there exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable.[2] A different proof was obtained by Boone in a paper published in 1958.[3]