Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician, born on 23 March 1907 and died on 10 May 1989. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, the study of the points where smooth maps and shapes cease to be well behaved. He also did foundational work on manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes and geometric integration theory. A manifold is a space that looks like ordinary Euclidean space near each of its points, and an embedding or immersion places such a space inside a larger one, which is the setting of his foundational results.
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He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did found
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In mathematics, particularly in differential topology, there are two Whitney embedding theorems, named after Hassler Whitney:
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In differential topology, the Whitney immersion theorem (named after Hassler Whitney) states that for
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In mathematics, in particular in mathematical analysis, the Whitney extension theorem is a partial converse to Taylor's theorem. Roughly speaking, the theorem asserts that if A is a closed
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