Mathematician:R.H. Bing

Mathematician
American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 20 October 1914 in Oakwood, Texas, USA
 * Died: 28 April 1986 in Austin, Texas, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Bing's Discrete Extension Space

Also known as
R.H. Bing was to have been named after his father, Rupert Henry, which Bing's mother thought was too British for Texas.

She compromised by abbreviating it to R.H.