Francis William Lawvere is a mathematician who is known for his work in category theory and the philosophy of mathematics. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and an adjunct professor emeritus of philosophy at the University at Buffalo.

He was a student of Samuel Eilenberg at Columbia University, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1963.

External links

• personal page at buffalo.edu (http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~wlawvere/)
• entry in the mathematics genealogy project (http://www.genealogy.ams.org/html/id.phtml?id=18947)
• photograph (http://andrej.com/mathematicians/L/Lawvere_William.html)