Whitney

Hassler Whitney

Born: 23 March 1907 in New York, USA
Died: 10 May 1989 in Mount Dents Blanches, Switzerland

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Whitney's main work was in topology, particularly in the theory of manifolds. Continuing work started by Veblen and Henry Whitehead, Whitney produced fundamental work in differential topology in 1935.

Whitney also wrote on graph theory, in particular the colouring of graphs and chromatic polynomials. Other work on algebraic varieties and integration theory was important.

References:

  1. A Lax, Hassler Whitney 1907-1989 - Some recollections 1979-1989, The Humanistic Mathematics Newsletter 4 (1989), 2-7.
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