Nationality American Name Sumner Myers Doctoral advisor Marston Morse Known for Myers theorem Fields Mathematics | Alma mater Harvard University Education Harvard University Role Mathematician | |
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Born February 19, 1910
Boston, Massachusetts ( 1910-02-19 ) Doctoral students Meyer Jerison
Ralph Raimi
Leonard J. Savage Died October 8, 1955, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States People also search for Marston Morse, Meyer Jerison, Leonard Jimmie Savage Notable students Leonard Jimmie Savage, Meyer Jerison | ||
Institutions University of Michigan | ||
Sumner Byron Myers (February 19, 1910 – October 8, 1955) was an American mathematician specialized in topology. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he was graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932. Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University (1934–1936) before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan, where an award for outstanding students of mathematics has been named in his honor. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during the 1955 Michigan–Army football game at Michigan Stadium.
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