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F. Thomas Farrell (born November 14, 1941 Ohio, United States) is a U.S. mathematician who has made contributions in the area of topology and differential geometry. Farrell is a distinguished professor at Math Sciences Department, (SUNY Binghamton ). He also hold a position at Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University. ==Biographical data== Farrell got his bachelor's degree in 1963 from the University of Notre Dame and finished his Ph.D in Mathematics from Yale University in 1967. His PhD advisor was Wu-chung Hsiang, and his doctoral thesis title was "The Obstruction to Fibering a Manifold over a Circle".〔(The Mathematics Genealogy project )〕 He was a NSF Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley from 1968 to 1969 and become an Assistant Professor there from 1969 to 1972. He then went to Pennsylvania State University, where he was promoted to professor in 1978. Later he joined University of Michigan (1979–1985) and Columbia University (1984–1992). Since 1990 Farrell has been a faculty member at SUNY Binghamton. In 1970, Farrell was invited to give a 50-minute address at the International Congress of Mathematicians about his thesis in Nice, France ".〔(List of ICM speakers )〕 In 1990, for their joint work on Rigidity in Geometry and Topology, his co-author Lowell Edwin Jones was invited to give a 45-minute address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, Japan ".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「F. Thomas Farrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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