{{short description|American mathematician}} '''Edwin Earl Floyd''' (8 May 1924, in [[Eufaula, Alabama]] – 9 December 1990) was an American mathematician, specializing in topology (especially [[cobordism]] theory).
==Education and career== Floyd studied received in 1943 his bachelor's degree from the [[University of Alabama]] and in 1948 his Ph.D. from the [[University of Virginia]] under [[Gordon Whyburn]] with thesis ''The extension of homeomorphisms''.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=504}}</ref> He was in the academic year 1948–1949 an instructor at [[Princeton University]] and became in 1949 a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, where in the 1960s he collaborated with [[Pierre Conner]] in research on cobordism theory. At the University of Virginia, he was the chair of the department of mathematics from 1966 to 1969 and since 1966 the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Mathematics. In 1974 he became the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in 1981 the vice-president and provost of the university. In the academic years 1958/59 and 1963/64 he was a visiting scholar at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]].<ref>[https://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/4470 Floyd, Edwin E. | Institute for Advanced Study]</ref>
From 1960 to 1964 he was a [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Sloan Fellow]]. In 1962 he was an [[invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians]] in Stockholm and gave a talk ''Some connections between cobordism and transformation groups''. In 1964 he was the Hedrick Lecturer of the [[Mathematical Association of America]]. In 1981 he received the Thomas Jefferson Award of the University of Virginia. His burial was in [[University of Virginia Cemetery|University Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas E. Spencer|title=Where they're buried: a directory containing more than twenty thousand names of notable persons buried in American cemeteries|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|year=1998|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wheretheyreburie00spen/page/443 443]|url=https://archive.org/details/wheretheyreburie00spen|url-access=registration|isbn=9780806348230}}</ref>
==Personal life== Floyd had a daughter, [[Sally Floyd|Sally]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hafner |first1=Katie |title=Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/science/sally-floyd-dead.html |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=September 8, 2019}}</ref>
==Selected publications== ===Articles=== *{{cite journal|title=A nonhomogeneous minimal set|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=55|issue=10|year=1949|pages=957–960|mr=0033535|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1949-09318-7|last1=Floyd|first1=E. E.|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal|title=On periodic maps and the Euler characteristics of associated spaces|journal=Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=72|issue=1|year=1952|pages=138–147|doi=10.2307/1990658|jstor=1990658|last1=Floyd|first1=E. E.|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal|title=Real-valued mappings of spheres|journal=Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=6|issue=6|year=1955|pages=957–959|mr=0073978|doi=10.1090/s0002-9939-1955-0073978-9|last1=Floyd|first1=E. E.|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1970115|title=Fixed point sets of compact abelian Lie groups of transformations|journal=Annals of Mathematics|year=1957|volume=66|issue=1|pages=30–35|jstor=1970115|last1=Floyd|first1=E. E.}} *with [[Roger Wolcott Richardson|R. W. Richardson]]: {{cite journal|title=An action of a finite group on an 𝑛-cell without stationary points|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=65|issue=2|year=1959|pages=73–76|mr=0100848|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1959-10282-2|last1=Floyd|first1=E. E.|last2=Richardson|first2=R. W.|doi-access=free}} *with Pierre E. Conner: {{cite journal|title=Fixed point free involutions and equivariant maps|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=66|issue=6|year=1960|pages=416–441|mr=0163310|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10492-2|last1=Conner|first1=P. E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.|doi-access=free|hdl=2027/mdp.39015095257989|hdl-access=free}} *with P. E. Conner: {{cite journal|title=Maps of odd period|journal=Annals of Mathematics|year=1966|volume=84|issue=2|pages=132–156|doi=10.2307/1970515|jstor=1970515|last1=Conner|first1=P. E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.}} *with P. E. Conner: {{cite journal|title=On the construction of periodic maps without fixed points|journal=Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1959|volume=10|issue=3|pages=354–360|mr=0105115|doi=10.1090/s0002-9939-1959-0105115-x|last1=Conner|first1=P. E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.|doi-access=free|hdl=2027/mdp.39015095249366|hdl-access=free}} *with P. E. Conner: {{cite journal|title=Differential periodic maps|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1962|volume=68|issue=2|pages=76–86|mr=0133834|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1962-10730-7|last1=Conner|first1=P. E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal|title=Stiefel-Whitney numbers of quaternionic and related manifolds|journal=Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1971|volume=155|pages=77–94|mr=0273632|doi=10.1090/s0002-9947-1971-0273632-8|last1=Floyd|first1=E. E.|doi-access=free}}
===Books=== *with Pierre E. Conner: {{cite book|title=Differentiable periodic maps|publisher=Springer|series=Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete|year=1964|doi=10.1007/978-3-662-41633-4|last1 = Conner|first1 = P. E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.|isbn=978-3-662-41635-8}} 2nd edn. 1979 *with P. E. Conner: {{cite book|title=The relation of cobordism to K-theories|volume=28|series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 28|year=1966|doi=10.1007/BFb0071091|last1=Conner|first1=P. E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.|isbn=978-3-540-03610-4}} *with P. E. Conner: {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7PTCQAAQBAJ|title=Torsion in 𝑆𝑈-bordism|series=No. 60. American Mathematical Society|year=1966|isbn=9780821812600|last1=Conner|first1=Pierre E.|last2=Floyd|first2=E. E.}}
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