J. H. C. Whitehead

J. H. C. Whitehead
Born
John Henry Constantine Whitehead

(1904-11-11)11 November 1904
Madras (Chennai), India
Died8 May 1960(1960-05-08) (aged 55)
NationalityBritish
Alma materOxford University
Princeton University
Known forCollapse
CW complex
Crossed module
Simple homotopy
Whitehead conjecture
Whitehead group
Whitehead link
Whitehead manifold
Whitehead problem
Whitehead product
Whitehead theorem
Whitehead torsion
Whitehead tower
Whitehead's algorithm
Whitehead's lemma
Whitehead's point-free geometry
Spanier–Whitehead duality
AwardsSenior Berwick Prize (1948)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsOxford University
Doctoral advisorOswald Veblen
Doctoral students
Whitehead link

John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS[1] (11 November 1904 – 8 May 1960), known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960.

  1. ^ a b Newman, M. H. A. (1961). "John Henry Constantine Whitehead. 1904-1960". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7: 349–363. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1961.0025. S2CID 72115726.

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