Mathematician:Solomon Lefschetz

Solomon Lefschetz (in Russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец) was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.

Nationality
Russian-born American

History

 * Born: 3 September 1884 in Moscow, Russia
 * Died: 5 October 1972 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lefschetz Pencil
 * Picard-Lefschetz Formula
 * Lefschetz Principle (First-Order)
 * Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1911: On the existence of loci with given singularities
 * 1921: On certain numerical invariants of algebraic varieties with application to abelian varieties
 * 1924: L'analysis situs et la géométrie algébrique
 * 1930: Topology
 * 1924: Algebraic Topology
 * 1949: Introduction to Topology
 * 1961: Stability by Liapunov's direct method with applications (with Joseph P. LaSalle)
 * 1953: Algebraic Geometry (2nd edn. 1964)
 * 1957: Differential equations: geometric theory (2nd edn. 1963)
 * 1965: Stability of nonlinear control systems
 * 1957: Differential equations: geometric theory (2nd edn. 1963)
 * 1965: Stability of nonlinear control systems