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Hassler Whitney
About
American mathematician (1907–1989)
Quick Facts
- Name
- Hassler Whitney
- Born
- 1907-03-23
- Died
- 1989-05-10
- Occupation
- mathematician / university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Birthplace
- New York City
Relationships
Family
- FatherEdward Baldwin Whitney
- MotherJosepha Newcomb Whitney
- ChildSally W. Thurston
- ChildJames Newcomb Whitney
Dates reflect listed records; an unspecified end date does not establish current status.
Awards & Nominations
4 received · 0 nominations listed in Wikidata
Notable Works
- Whitney embedding theoremtheorem
- Whitney extension theorempartial converse of Taylor's theorem
- Whitney immersion theoremOn immersions of smooth m-dimensional manifolds in 2m-space and (2m-1) space
- Whitney conditionsconditions on a pair of submanifolds of a manifold introduced by Hassler Whitney in 1965
- travelling salesperson problemNP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization
Education
- Harvard University1928 — 1932
- Yale UniversityUntil 1928
Sources & Credits
Wikidata · Q742072 ↗
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