| Morris Hirsch | |
|---|---|
 Morris W. Hirsch, Berkeley 1986 (age 53) | |
| Born | (1933-06-28) June 28, 1933 (age 91) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisors | 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. His thesis was entitled Immersions of Manifolds. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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) 3rd edition, 2013
- with Stephen Smale: Differential equations, dynamical systems and linear algebra, Academic Press 1974
- Differential Topology, Springer 1976, 1997
- with Barry Mazur: Smoothings of piecewise linear manifolds, Princeton University Press 1974
- with Charles C. Pugh, Michael Shub: Invariant Manifolds, Springer 1977
See also
- Brouwer fixed-point theorem
- Chern's conjecture (affine geometry)
- Differential structure
- Homotopy principle
- Immersion (mathematics)
- Whitney embedding theorem
References
- Morris Hirsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.
- Crannell, Annalisa (February 5, 2005). "Review of Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos by Morris Hirsch, Stephen Smale, and Robert L. Devaney". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
- 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.
External links
- Website at the University of California, Berkeley
- Morris Hirsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- search on author Morris Hirsch from Google Scholar
- Literature by and about Morris Hirsch in the German National Library catalogue
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