Walter Lewis Baily, Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Lewis Baily, Jr.

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1930

Place of Birth: Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jan-2013

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Walter Lewis Baily, Jr.

  • Walter Lewis Baily, Jr.
  • (b.
  • July 5, 1930 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania; d.
  • January 15, 2013 in Northbrook, Illinois) was an American mathematician. Walter Baily's research focused on areas of algebraic groups, modular forms and number-theoretical applications of automorphic forms.
  • One of his significant works was with Armand Borel, now known as the Baily–Borel compactification, which is a compactification of a quotient of a Hermitian symmetric space by an arithmetic group (that is, a linear algebraic group over the rational numbers).
  • Baily and Borel built on the work of Ichiro Satake and others. Baily was a winner of the 1952 Putnam Mathematics Competition.
  • He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1952, after which he attended Princeton University, receiving a Masters in 1953 and a Ph.D.
  • in Mathematics in 1955 under the direction of his thesis advisor Kunihiko Kodaira (On the Quotient of a Complex Analytic Manifold by a Discontinuous Group of Complex Analytic Self-Homomorphisms).
  • Subsequently, he was an instructor at Princeton and then MIT.
  • In 1957 he worked as a mathematician at Bell Laboratories.
  • In 1957, he was appointed Assistant Professor and subsequently promoted to Professor in 1963 at the University of Chicago.
  • He became a Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago in 2005. He was a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Society of Japan.
  • He often visited the University of Tokyo as a guest of Shokichi Iyanaga and Kunihiko Kodaira, spoke fluent Japanese and in Tokyo, 1963 married Yaeko Iseki, with whom he had a son.
  • He owned an apartment in Tokyo for many years where he spent his summers.
  • In addition, he often visited Moscow and Saint Petersburg and spoke fluent Russian.
  • He was awarded an Alfred P.
  • Sloan Fellowship in 1958.
  • In 1962, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Stockholm (On the moduli of Abelian varieties with multiplications from an order in a totally real number field). His doctoral students include Paul Monsky, Timothy J.
  • Hickey and Daniel Bump.

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