William Werner Boone | |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1920 |
Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
Death Place: | Urbana, Illinois |
Nationality: | American |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Workplaces: | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Institute for Advanced Study |
Alma Mater: | Princeton University |
Doctoral Advisor: | Alonzo Church |
Known For: | Boone–Higman theorem Boone–Rogers theorem Novikov–Boone theorem |
William Werner Boone (16 January 1920 in Cincinnati – 14 September 1983 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American mathematician. He completed his undergrad degree as a part time student at the University of Cincinnati.[1]
Alonzo Church was his Ph.D. advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Pyotr Novikov showed in 1955 that there exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable. A different proof was obtained by Boone in a paper published in 1958.