Ralph Fox | |
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Born | |
Died | December 23, 1973 | (aged 60)
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Johns Hopkins University Princeton University |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Thesis | On the Lusternick–Schnirelmann Category (1939) |
Doctoral advisor | Solomon Lefschetz |
Doctoral students |
Ralph Hartzler Fox (March 24, 1913 – December 23, 1973) was an American mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization of knot theory and of bringing it into the mainstream.