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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Edwin Spanier

Institutions
  
UC Berkeley

Role
  
Mathematician

Fields
  
Doctoral advisor
  

Edwin Spanier httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Born
  
August 8, 1921Washington, D.C. (
1921-08-08
)

Doctoral students
  
Morris HirschElon Lages Lima

Died
  
October 11, 1996, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Books
  
Algebraic Topology, Algebraic Topology: 3rd Printing

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Similar People
  

Edwin Henry Spanier (August 8, 1921 – October 11, 1996) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology (Spanier 1981).

Spanier attended the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1941. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Signal Corps. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1947; his thesis, written under the direction of Norman Steenrod, was entitled Cohomology Theory for General Spaces. After spending a year as a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1948, and then professor at Berkeley in 1959.

Publications

  • Dubins–Spanier theorems
  • Spanier, Edwin H. (1981) [first published in 1966], Algebraic topology. Corrected reprint, New York-Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. xvi+528, ISBN 0-387-90646-0, MR 0666554 
  • References

    Edwin Spanier Wikipedia


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