Guy Hirsch

Not to be confused with Warren M. Hirsch, the namesake of the Hirsch conjecture
Guy Hirsch
Born (1915-09-20)20 September 1915
London
Died 4 August 1993(1993-08-04) (aged 77)
Brussels
Alma mater Université libre de Bruxelles
Known for algebraic topology
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Université libre de Bruxelles
Doctoral advisor Alfred Errera

Guy Hirsch (20 September 1915 – 4 August 1993)[1] was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics, who worked on algebraic topology and epistemology of mathematics.

He became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 1973.

He is known for the Leray–Hirsch theorem, a basic result on the algebraic topology of fiber bundles that he proved independently of Jean Leray in the late 1940s.

References

  1. ↑ "In Memoriam Guy Hirsch (1915–1993)". Historia Mathematica. 22: 345–346. 1995. doi:10.1006/hmat.1995.1029.


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