Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz ForMemRS | |
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| Born | 3 September 1884 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 5 October 1972 (aged 88) Princeton, New Jersey, US |
| Citizenship | US |
| Alma mater | École Centrale Paris Clark University |
| Known for | Lefschetz fixed-point theorem Picard–Lefschetz theory Lefschetz connection Lefschetz hyperplane theorem Lefschetz duality Lefschetz manifold Lefschetz number Lefschetz principle Lefschetz zeta function Lefschetz pencil Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes |
| Awards | Bôcher Memorial Prize (1924) National Medal of Science (1964) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970) Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algebraic topology |
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| Thesis | On the Existence of Loci with Given Singularities (1911) |
Doctoral advisor | William Edward Story |
Doctoral students | Edward Begle Richard Bellman Felix Browder Clifford Dowker George F. D. Duff Ralph Fox Ralph Gomory John McCarthy Robert Prim Paul A. Smith Norman Steenrod Arthur Harold Stone Clifford Truesdell Albert W. Tucker John Tukey Henry Wallman Shaun Wylie |
Other notable students | Sylvia de Neymet |
Solomon Lefschetz ForMemRS (Russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) 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.