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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.

Table of Contents
  • Permissions
  • Some snapshots
  • How Hassler chose his genes
  • Growing up
  • Hassler goes to college
  • Early days at Harvard
  • The four-color problem: Some history and Whitney's contributions to it
  • Whitney and the four-color problem: A closer look
  • Whitney discovers a big brother to the matrix: The matroid
  • Topology: Its beginnings
  • Topology grows into a branch of mathematics
  • Whitney helped revolutionize algebraic topology
  • Whitney's extension theorems
  • Whitney's weak embedding theorem
  • Whitney's strong embedding theorem
  • World War II
  • From Harvard to the Institute, and insights on smooth mappings
  • Are there decomposition theorems for nonmanifolds?
  • After research
  • Evolution or revolution?
  • Other happenings at the Institute
  • The unspeakable was about to happen
  • Sometimes you get to know people through the little things
  • Parting shots: A gallery of photos
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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        Publisher: MP-AMM American Mathematical
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9781470448288, 978-1470448288
        ISBN10: 1470448289

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        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.

        Table of Contents
        • Permissions
        • Some snapshots
        • How Hassler chose his genes
        • Growing up
        • Hassler goes to college
        • Early days at Harvard
        • The four-color problem: Some history and Whitney's contributions to it
        • Whitney and the four-color problem: A closer look
        • Whitney discovers a big brother to the matrix: The matroid
        • Topology: Its beginnings
        • Topology grows into a branch of mathematics
        • Whitney helped revolutionize algebraic topology
        • Whitney's extension theorems
        • Whitney's weak embedding theorem
        • Whitney's strong embedding theorem
        • World War II
        • From Harvard to the Institute, and insights on smooth mappings
        • Are there decomposition theorems for nonmanifolds?
        • After research
        • Evolution or revolution?
        • Other happenings at the Institute
        • The unspeakable was about to happen
        • Sometimes you get to know people through the little things
        • Parting shots: A gallery of photos
        • Notes
        • Bibliography
        • Index.

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