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Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney | |
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 Whitney in April 1973 | |
| Born | March 23, 1907 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 10, 1989 (aged 82) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA, BM) Harvard University (PhD) |
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| Relatives | Dwight family |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
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| 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.
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