Morris Hirsch
| Morris Hirsch | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
June 28, 1933 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor |
Edwin Spanier Stephen Smale |
| Doctoral students | |
Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American mathematician, formerly at the University of California, Berkeley.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958, under supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale.[1] His thesis was entitled Immersions of Manifolds. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
Hirsch had 23 doctoral students, including William Thurston, William Goldman, and Mary Lou Zeeman.
Selected works
- with Stephen Smale and Robert L. Devaney: Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos, Academic Press 2004 (2nd edition)
- with Smale: Differential equations, dynamical systems and linear algebra, Academic Press 1974
- Differential Topology, Springer 1976,[3] 1997
- with Barry Mazur: Smoothings of piecewise linear manifolds, Princeton University Press 1974
- with Charles C. Pugh, Michael Shub: Invariant Manifolds, Springer 1977
References
- ↑ Morris Hirsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ James, Ioan M. (1977). "Review: Differential Topology, by Morris Hirsch" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 83 (5): 997–998. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1977-14350-4.
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