Paul Baum (mathematician)

Paul Frank Baum is an American mathematician, the Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

[1] Baum studied at Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1958.

He went on to Princeton University for his graduate studies, completing his Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of John Coleman Moore and Norman Steenrod.

He was several times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1964–65, 1976–77, 2004)[2] After several visiting positions and an assistant professorship at Princeton, he moved to Brown University in 1967, and remained there until 1987 when he moved to Penn State.

[3][4] In 2007, a meeting in honor of his 70th birthday was held in Warsaw by the Polish Academy of Sciences.