Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American mathematician, formerly at the University of California, Berkeley.

Morris Hirsch
Morris W. Hirsch, Berkeley 1986 (age 53)
Born (1933-06-28) June 28, 1933 (age 91)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorsEdwin Spanier
Stephen Smale
Doctoral students

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958, under supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale.[1] His thesis was entitled Immersions of Manifolds. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

Hirsch had 23 doctoral students, including William Thurston, William Goldman, and Mary Lou Zeeman.

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References

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  1. ^ Morris Hirsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.
  3. ^ Crannell, Annalisa (February 5, 2005). "Review of Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos by Morris Hirsch, Stephen Smale, and Robert L. Devaney". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  4. ^ James, Ioan M. (1977). "Review: Differential Topology, by Morris Hirsch" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 83 (5): 997–998. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1977-14350-4.
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