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Hassler Whitney

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American mathematician human mathematician

Hassler Whitney was an influential American mathematician known for foundational contributions to differential topology and geometry, including work on manifolds, embeddings, and singularities.

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Leroy P. Steele Prize → National Medal of Science →
contributedTo	development of modern differential topology → theory of embeddings of manifolds in Euclidean space → theory of singularities of differentiable maps → theory of smooth manifolds →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
educatedAt	Harvard University → Yale University →
employer	Harvard University → Institute for Advanced Study →
familyName	Whitney →
fieldOfWork	differential geometry → differential topology → manifold theory → mathematics → singularity theory → topology →
givenName	Hassler →
hasConceptNamedAfter	Whitney stratification → Whitney sum → Whitney umbrella →
hasTheoremNamedAfter	Whitney approximation theorem → Whitney embedding theorem →
influenced	development of singularity theory → later work in differential topology →
memberOf	American Mathematical Society → National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America →
name	Hassler Whitney →
notableFor	Whitney approximation theorem → Whitney embedding theorem → Whitney stratification → foundational work in differential topology → work on manifolds and embeddings → work on singularities of mappings →
notableStudent	John Milnor → Raoul Bott →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Whitney approximation theorem → Whitney embedding theorem → Whitney stratification →	namedAfter
Hassler Whitney →	name
Whitney embedding theorem →	provedBy