Morris Hirsch

Morris William Hirsch is an American mathematician, born on 28 June 1933 and a native of Chicago, Illinois, who was formerly at the University of California, Berkeley. He attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958 under the supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale, with a thesis entitled Immersions of Manifolds, and in 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He had 23 doctoral students, including William Thurston, William Goldman and Mary Lou Zeeman. His books include Differential Topology, the textbook Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and an Introduction to Chaos written with Stephen Smale and Robert L. Devaney, and Invariant Manifolds written with Charles C. Pugh and Michael Shub.