Michael Boardman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Boardman

mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1938

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

John Michael Boardman is a mathematician whose speciality is algebraic and differential topology.
He was formerly at the University of Cambridge, England; he is currently a full professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Boardman is most widely known for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Cambridge in 1964.
His thesis advisor was C.
T.
C.
Wall.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.