Hassler Whitney | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | March 23, 1907
Died | May 10, 1989 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Yale University (BA, BM) Harvard University (PhD) |
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Relatives | Dwight family |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | The Coloring of Graphs (1932) |
Doctoral advisor | George David Birkhoff |
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Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) 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.