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Michael Boardman
John Michael Boardman (13 February 1938 18 March 2021) was a mathematician whose speciality was algebraic and differential topology. He was affiliated with the University of Cambridge, England and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Boardman was most widely known for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra. He received his PhD 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. He died on 18 March 2021.
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John Michael Boardman (13 February 1938 18 March 2021) was a mathematician whose speciality was algebraic and differential topology. He was affiliated with the University of Cambridge, England and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Boardman was most widely known for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra. He received his PhD 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. He died on 18 March 2021.
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- date of death: 2021-03-18 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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