William Joseph Haboush (born 1942) is an American mathematician at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...
who is best known for his 1975 proof of one of
David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded t ...
's conjectures, known as
Haboush's theorem
In mathematics Haboush's theorem, often still referred to as the Mumford conjecture, states that for any semisimple algebraic group ''G'' over a field ''K'', and for any linear representation ρ of ''G'' on a ''K''-vector space ''V'', given ''v''& ...
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Living people
1942 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Columbia University alumni
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