Franklin P. Peterson

Franklin Paul Peterson (1930–2000) was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Life and career Peterson was born in Aurora, Illinois, on August 27, 1930, the older of two brothers. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother and uncle. After postdoctoral studies at Princeton, he joined the MIT faculty in 1958.

He advised over 20 doctoral students (different sources give different numbers, in part because Robert E. Mosher, whom Peterson considered his first student, had a different official advisor) and has over 100 academic descendants.

Selected publications .

. . . Part II (with Frederick R. Cohen), pp. 41–51.