Jeffrey H. Smith | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Purdue University |
Doctoral advisor | Daniel Kan |
Jeffrey Henderson Smith is a former professor of mathematics at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, under the supervision of Daniel Kan,[1] and was promoted to full professor at Purdue in 1999.[2] His primary research interest is algebraic topology; his best-cited work[3] consists of two papers in the Annals of Mathematics on "nilpotence and stable homotopy".