Williams, Scott W.
1943-present · Contribution: 1969-present
Set-theoretic topology and topological dynamics; in 1975 became the first topologist to apply the concept of scales (now known as b=d) to give a partial solution of the Box Product problem
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Impact on the world
A noted topologist who co-founded Black and Third World Mathematicians (1971, which became the National Association of Mathematicians) and the Committee for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (1997); created the influential website 'Mathematicians of the African Diaspora' (1997).
Life & background
African-American mathematician born April 22, 1943 in Staten Island, NY; raised in Baltimore. BS, Morgan State (under Clarence Stephens); PhD in topology, Lehigh University (1969). Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
Sources
- Mathematicians of the African Diaspora; University at Buffalo
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