Never a Dull MomentAmerican Mathematical Soc., 2018 - 385 pàgines Hassler Whitney was a giant of twentieth-century mathematics. This biography paints a picture of him and includes dozens of revealing anecdotes. Mathematically, he had a rare detector that went off whenever he spotted a piece of mathematical gold, and he would then draw countless pictures, gradually forging a path from hunch to proof. |
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Chapter 2 How Hassler Chose His Genes | 9 |
Chapter 3 Growing Up | 23 |
Chapter 4 Hassler Goes to College | 37 |
Chapter 5 Early Days at Harvard | 43 |
Some History and Whitneys Contributions to It | 47 |
A Closer Look | 55 |
The Matroid | 83 |
Chapter 15 World War II | 189 |
Chapter 16 From Harvard to the Institute Insights on Smooth Mappings | 197 |
Chapter 17 Are There Decomposition Theorems for Nonmanifolds? | 217 |
Chapter 18 After Research | 235 |
Chapter 19 Evolution or Revolution? | 251 |
Chapter 20 Other Happenings at the Institute | 267 |
Chapter 21 The Unspeakable Was About to Happen | 281 |
Chapter 22 Sometimes You Get to Know People Through the Little Things | 289 |
Its Beginnings | 97 |
Chapter 10 Topology Grows Into a Branch of Mathematics | 107 |
Chapter 11 Whitney Helped Revolutionize Algebraic Topology | 133 |
Chapter 12 Whitneys Extension Theorems | 143 |
Chapter 13 Whitneys Weak Embedding Theorem | 161 |
Chapter 14 Whitneys Strong Embedding Theorem | 175 |
A Gallery of Photos | 313 |
Notes | 345 |
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Back Cover | 386 |
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