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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.

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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)

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William Lawvere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (258 words)
	Francis William Lawvere is a mathematician known for his work in category theory, topos theory and the philosophy of mathematics.
	Lawvere then spent most of his career at University at Buffalo, where he is professor emeritus of mathematics and an adjunct professor emeritus of philosophy.
	Lawvere, together with Myles Tierney, developed the definition of an elementary topos, generalizing the concept of the Grothendieck topos, in 1969-70 (see background and genesis of topos theory).

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