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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Mathematics

Role
  
Mathematician


Name
  
Richard Lashof

Doctoral advisor
  
Richard Lashof

Born
  
November 9, 1922Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (
1922-11-09
)

Alma mater
  
Columbia (Ph.D. 1954)Pennsylvania (B.Sc. 1943)

Doctoral students
  
Robert StongAlcibiades RigasChristopher Croke

Died
  
February 4, 2010, Alameda, California, United States

Books
  
Groups of Automorphisms of Manifolds


Institutions
  

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 is 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.

Richard Lashof Richard Lashof mathematician 19222010 UChicago News

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lashof earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943, then served as 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 supervision of Richard Vincent Kadison.

His wife, Joyce Lashof, was awarded the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in 1995.

References

Richard Lashof Wikipedia


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