Guy Hirsch (20 September 1915 to 4 August 1993) was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics. His mathematical work lay in algebraic topology, and he also wrote on the epistemology of mathematics. He is best known for the Leray-Hirsch theorem, a basic result on the algebraic topology of fiber bundles that he proved independently of Jean Leray in the late 1940s. In 1973 he became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. The English Wikipedia article about him is short, so this entry records only these facts and does not name his teachers, students or other results.
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was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics
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Guy Hirsch (20 September 1915
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He became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy
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was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics
In Branch: Algebraic Topology, Lead, fields of work
who worked on algebraic topology and epistemology of mathematics
Principal Result: Leray-Hirsch Theorem, Lead, known for
He is known for the Leray
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It is named after Jean Leray and Guy Hirsch, who independently proved it in the late 1940s.
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