Victor William Guillemin (born 1937 in Boston) is an American mathematician.
[2] He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1962; his dissertation, entitled Theory of Finite G-Structures, was written under the direction of Shlomo Sternberg.
[3] He worked at Columbia University from 1963 to 1966 and then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as assistant professor.
[9] In 2003, he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.
[2] He is the author or co-author of numerous books and monographs, including a widely used textbook on differential topology, written jointly with Alan Pollack in 1974, and a monograph on symplectic geometry in physics, written jointly with Shlomo Sternberg in 1986.