Mathematician:Sumner Byron Myers
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Mathematician
American mathematician specializing in topology and differential geometry.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: February 19, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts
- Died: October 8, 1955 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Theorems and Definitions
- Myers Theorem
- Myers-Steenrod Theorem (with Norman Earl Steenrod)
- Bonnet-Myers Theorem (with Pierre Ossian Bonnet)
Results named for Sumner Byron Myers can be found here.
Publications
- 1939: The group of isometries of a Riemannian manifold (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 40, no. 2: pp. 400 – 416) (with N.E. Steenrod) www.jstor.org/stable/1968928
- 1941: Riemannian manifolds with positive mean curvature (Duke Math. J. Vol. 8, no. 2: pp. 401 – 404)