Biography:Morris Hirsch

From HandWiki
Short description: American mathematician
Morris Hirsch
Hirsch morris.jpg
Born (1933-06-28) June 28, 1933 (age 91)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorsEdwin 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

See also

References

External links