Morris Hirsch

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Nationality American Education University of Chicago Alma mater University of Chicago Fields Mathematics		Name Morris Hirsch Role Mathematician

Born June 28, 1933 (age 91) Chicago, Illinois ( 1933-06-28 ) Institutions University of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Duane CooperWilliam GoldmanDavid SpringWilliam Thurston Doctoral advisor Edwin Spanier, Stephen Smale Books Differential Equations - Dynamic, Differential Equations - Dynamic, Invariant Manifolds, Differential topology, Differential Topology/Graduate texts in m Similar People Stephen Smale, Robert L Devaney, Michael Shub, Jerrold E Marsden, William Thurston
Notable students William Thurston

“COMMON ZEROS OF VECTOR FIELDS OF LIE ALGEBRAS ON LOW DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS”--Morris Hirsch

Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American mathematician, formerly at the University of California, Berkeley.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958, under supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale. His thesis was entitled Immersions of Manifolds. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Morris Hirsch

Selected works

with Smale, Devaney: Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos, Academic Press 2004 (2nd edition)

with Smale: Differential equations, dynamical systems and linear algebra, Academic Press 1974

Differential Topology, Springer 1976, 1997

with Barry Mazur: Smoothings of piecewise linear manifolds, Princeton University Press 1974

with C. C. Pugh, M. Shub: Invariant Manifolds, Springer 1977

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“COMMON ZEROS OF VECTOR FIELDS OF LIE ALGEBRAS ON LOW DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS”--Morris Hirsch

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Morris Hirsch

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