died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960. J. H. C. (Henry) Whitehead was the son of the Right Rev. Henry Whitehead, Bishop of Madras, who had studied mathematics...
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groups, then f is a homotopy equivalence. This result was proved by J. H. C. Whitehead in two landmark papers from 1949, and provides a justification for...
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In knot theory, the Whitehead link, named for J. H. C. Whitehead, is one of the most basic links. It can be drawn as an alternating link with five crossings...
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the Whitehead manifold is an open 3-manifold that is contractible, but not homeomorphic to R 3 . {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}.} J. H. C. Whitehead (1935)...
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based on a classic 1936 paper of J. H. C. Whitehead. It is still unknown (except for the case n = 2) if Whitehead's algorithm has polynomial time complexity...
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the Whitehead product is a graded quasi-Lie algebra structure on the homotopy groups of a space. It was defined by J. H. C. Whitehead in (Whitehead 1941)...
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_{1}(Y))} . These concepts are named after the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead. The Whitehead torsion is important in applying surgery theory to non-simply...
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their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead. More specifically, people being considered for the award must be...
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Divinity (DD). Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the father of the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead. Whitehead, Henry (1916)...
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the S-duality of string theory. It is named for Edwin Spanier and J. H. C. Whitehead, who developed it in papers from 1955. The basic point is that sphere...
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caused Houdini's death J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician Jamal Whitehead, American lawyer James Whitehead (disambiguation) (including...
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subcomplex. Collapses, like CW complexes themselves, were invented by J. H. C. Whitehead. Collapses find applications in computational homology. Let K {\displaystyle...
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the negation of the continuum hypothesis, Whitehead's problem cannot be resolved in ZFC. J. H. C. Whitehead, motivated by the second Cousin problem, first...
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complex. A CW complex is a type of topological space introduced by J. H. C. Whitehead to meet the needs of homotopy theory. This class of spaces is broader...
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In homological algebra, Whitehead's lemmas (named after J. H. C. Whitehead) represent a series of statements regarding representation theory of finite-dimensional...
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Whitehead conjecture (also known as the Whitehead asphericity conjecture) is a claim in algebraic topology. It was formulated by J. H. C. Whitehead in...
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Oswald Veblen (category Articles with hCards)
University Press, 1927) The Foundations of Differential Geometry with J. H. C. Whitehead (Cambridge University Press, 1932) Projektive Relativitätstheorie...
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significance for algebraic topology. It was initially introduced by J. H. C. Whitehead to meet the needs of homotopy theory. CW complexes have better categorical...
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1892–1921 Edwin Bailey Elliott 1922–1945 Arthur Lee Dixon 1947–1960 J. H. C. Whitehead 1960–1984 Graham Higman 1984–2006 Daniel Quillen 2007–2013 Raphaël...
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Magdalen in 1979. Sir John Betjeman Oscar Wilde King Edward VIII J. H. C. Whitehead Geoffrey Adams, British Diplomatic Service Montek Singh Ahluwalia...
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Whitehead may refer to: J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician Henry Whitehead (bishop) (1853–1947), Bishop of Madras and father of J....
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Ioan James (category Articles with hCards)
Some problems in algebraic topology, written under the direction of J. H. C. Whitehead. In 1957 he was appointed reader in pure mathematics, a post which...
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Lev Pontryagin (category Articles with hCards)
read mathematical books and papers (notably those of Heinz Hopf, J. H. C. Whitehead, and Hassler Whitney) to him, and later worked as his secretary. His...
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which way he believed his question would be answered. In the 1930s, J. H. C. Whitehead claimed a proof but then retracted it. In the process, he discovered...
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Waynflete Professorships at Magdalen. These include the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead, who held the Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics between...
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Peter Hilton (category Articles with hCards)
DPhil in 1949 from Oxford University under the supervision of John Henry Whitehead. His dissertation was "Calculation of the homotopy groups of A n 2 {\displaystyle...
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Hopf invariant (section Whitehead integral formula)
topological K-theory, that these are the only maps with Hopf invariant 1. J. H. C. Whitehead has proposed the following integral formula for the Hopf invariant...
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recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. November 11 – J. H. C. Whitehead (died 1960), British mathematician. Sven Sømme (died 1961), Norwegian...
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John Wesley John Whitehead (explorer) (1860–1899), British explorer J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician John B. Whitehead (1872–1954), American...
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complex or PL-manifold A, equal to Wh(π1(A)); see Whitehead torsion. All named after J. H. C. Whitehead. This disambiguation page lists mathematics articles...
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