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Solomon Lefschetz
Jewish American mathematician (1884-1972)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 September 1884
- Died
- 5 October 1972
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Solomon
- Family name
- Lefschetz
- Father
- Alexander Lefschetz
- Field of work
- algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, theory of differential equations, mathematics, topology, ordinary differential equation
- Occupation
- mathematician, topologist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States, Russian Empire
- Awards
- National Medal of Science, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Order of the Aztec Eagle, Feltrinelli Prize, Leroy P. Steele Prize, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- academic thesis
- Q95376224
- birth name
- Соломо́н Ле́фшец
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- doctoral advisor
- William Edward Story
- doctoral student
- Ralph Fox, Edward G. Begle, Richard E. Bellman, Felix Browder, Donald Wayne Bushaw, Clifford Hugh Dowker, George F. D. Duff, Ralph E. Gomory, Robert C. Prim, Paul A. Smith, Norman Steenrod, Arthur Harold Stone
- educated at
- École Centrale Paris, Clark University
- employer
- University of Kansas, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Princeton University, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Research Institute for Advanced Studies
- Erdős number
- 3
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Mathematical Society, American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Соломо́н Ле́фшец
- notable work
- Picard–Lefschetz theory, Lefschetz zeta function, Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, Holomorphic Lefschetz fixed-point formula, Lefschetz hyperplane theorem, Lefschetz duality, Schwerer Lefschetz theorem, Lefschetz manifold, Q56298542, Lefschetz pencil, Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes
- place of burial
- Princeton Cemetery
- relative
- Denise Weill, Claude Cardot, Henry Cardot
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