Mathematician:Hassler Whitney

American mathematician who worked mainly in topology.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 23 March 1907, New York, USA
 * Died: 10 May 1989, Mount Dents Blanches, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Whitney Immersion Theorem
 * Weak Whitney Immersion Theorem
 * Whitney Embedding Theorem
 * Loomis-Whitney Inequality (with )
 * McShane-Whitney Extension Theorem (with )
 * Stiefel-Whitney Class (with )
 * Whitney's Conditions A and B
 * Whitney Graph Isomorphism Theorem
 * Whitney Trick
 * Whitney Umbrella

Books and Papers

 * 1948: On Ideals of Differentiable Functions