John Roe (6 October 1959 – 9 March 2018) was a British mathematician. Roe grew up in the countryside in Shropshire. He went to Rugby School, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, and received his D.Phil. in 1985 from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Michael Atiyah. As a post-doctoral student, he was at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, and then a tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. From 1998 until shortly before his death he was a professor at the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. His research interests center around index theorems,

coarse geometry In the mathematical fields of geometry and topology, a coarse structure on a set ''X'' is a collection of subsets of the cartesian product ''X'' × ''X'' with certain properties which allow the ''large-scale structure'' of metric spaces and topolo ...

, operator algebras, noncommutative geometry, and the Novikov conjecture in

differential topology In mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with the topological properties and smooth properties of smooth manifolds. In this sense differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which ...

. He was an editor of the ''

Journal of Noncommutative Geometry A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...

'' and the '' Journal of Topology''. In 1996 he was awarded the

Whitehead Prize The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehea ...

. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-27.

Books

*''Elementary Geometry'' *''Lectures on Coarse Geometry''
''Winding Around'', American Math Society, (2015)
*''Analytic K-Homology with Nigel Higson''
''Mathematics for Sustainability'', Springer, (2018)

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