Dr. Edward Bierstone
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
1992
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Department of Mathematics
Keywords
Algebraic geometry, geometric analysis
Edward Bierstone made very important early contributions to Equivariant Differential Topology, and he is now a world leader in the somewhat different area of Differential Analysis. He was one of the first mathematicians to study transversality and genericity problems for equivariant mappings. He is also responsible for many of the basic results on orbit spaces of compact transformation groups. His more recent work includes the strongest known result on the classical composition problem for analytic mappings.