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Hassler Whitney
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 35 years ago |
Date of birth | March 23,1907 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | New York |
United States | |
Date of died | May 10,1989 |
Died | Princeton |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Parents | Edward Baldwin Whitney |
Job | Scientist |
Mathematician | |
Mountaineer | |
Education | Harvard University |
Yale University | |
Books | Hassler Whitney collected papers |
Complex Analytic Varieties | |
The Collected Papers of Hassler Whitney V | |
Geometric Integration Theory | |
Awards | Wolf Prize in Mathematics |
Leroy P. Steele Prize | |
National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science | |
Children | Sally W. Thurston |
James Newcomb Whitney | |
Field | Mathematics |
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ID | 524082 |
Hassler Whitney Life story
Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory.