Background
He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and educated at Louisiana State University, Harvard University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy under the supervision of Hans Samelson.
He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and educated at Louisiana State University, Harvard University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy under the supervision of Hans Samelson.
Harvard University; University of Michigan. Louisiana State University.
He emigrated in 1970, and subsequently worked in the United Kingdom and Australia. Richardson’s best known result states that if P is a parabolic subgroup of a reductive group, then P has a dense orbit on its nilradical, id est (that is), one whose closure is the whole space. This orbit is now universally known as the Richardson orbit.
