- Source: Richard Lashof
Richard K. Lashof (November 9, 1922 – February 4, 2010) was an American mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Lashof was regarded as "the key figure in sustaining the Chicago Mathematics Department as an international center for research and the training of topologists" by Melvin Rothenberg.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lashof earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 and was a communications officer in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. He earned his doctoral degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1954 under the supervision of Richard Vincent Kadison. In 1971 he was an invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.
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External links
Richard Lashof at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Richard Lashof
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- Richard Kadison
- Deaths in February 2010
- List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers
- Joyce C. Lashof
- John Smillie (mathematician)
- Robert Evert Stong
- 2010 in science
- Differential topology
