Login Preferences
About News Publications Statistics Downloads API Guide License How to use Preferences
bn:03113763n
Noun Named Entity
SYL
Hassler Whitney
EN
Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. Wikipedia
Relations
Sources
IS A
Homo sapiens
AWARD RECEIVED
National medal of science
EN
Leroy P. Steele Prize
EN
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
EN
Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
ꠀꠝꠦꠞꠤꠇꠣ
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
George David Birkhoff
DOCTORAL STUDENT
EN
Paul Olum
EN
Herbert Robbins
James Eells
EN
Wilfred Kaplan
EN
Richard Eliot Chamberlin
EDUCATED AT
EN
Harvard University
EN
Yale University
EMPLOYER
EN
Harvard University
Institute for advanced study
EN
Applied Mathematics Panel
FAMILY
EN
Whitney family
FAMILY NAME
EN
Whitney
FATHER
Edward Baldwin Whitney
FIELD OF WORK
EN
topology
EN
graph theory
EN
singularity theory
GIVEN NAME
EN
Hassler
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
EN
English
MEMBER OF
EN
National Academy of Sciences
EN
Swiss Alpine Club
American Philosophical Society
MOTHER
EN
Josepha Newcomb Whitney
NOTABLE WORK
EN
Whitney immersion theorem
EN
Whitney covering lemma
EN
Whitney umbrella
EN
Whitney topologies
EN
Whitney disk
+9 relations
OCCUPATION
EN
mathematician
EN
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
EN
New York
PLACE OF BURIAL
EN
Dent Blanche
PLACE OF DEATH
Princeton
POSITION HELD
EN
president
RELATIVE
Simon Newcomb
EN
William Dwight Whitney
EN
Josiah Whitney
SEX OR GENDER
EN
male
BabelNet
SYL
Hassler Whitney

Please note that, in order to improve your browsing experience on this website, BabelNet® uses various types of cookies, including: browsing functionality, performance and statistical cookies.

By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. OK

License