Charles Cameron Conley (26 September 1933 – 20 November 1984) was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.
[1] The Conley index theory and the Conley–Zehnder theorem are named after him.
After four and a half years in the Air Force, mostly stationed in England, he returned to Wayne State.
degree in 1957, where he with the Phi Beta Kappa Key, and an M.S.
[1][2] He then moved to Boston, where he earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 under the supervision of Jürgen Moser.