Hassler Whitney
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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.
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Born | (1907-03-23)March 23, 1907 New York City, US |
Died | May 10, 1989(1989-05-10) (aged 82) |
Alma mater | Yale University |
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Fields | Mathematics |
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Thesis | The Coloring of Graphs (1932) |
Doctoral advisor | George David Birkhoff |
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