Lefschetz fixed-point theorem Picard–Lefschetz theory Lefschetz connection Lefschetz hyperplane theorem Lefschetz duality Lefschetz manifold Lefschetz number Lefschetz principle Lefschetz zeta function Lefschetz pencil Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes
Awards
Bôcher Memorial Prize (1924) National Medal of Science (1964) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970) Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Algebraic topology
Institutions
University of Nebraska
University of Kansas
Princeton University
National Autonomous University of Mexico[2]
Brown University
Thesis
On the Existence of Loci with Given Singularities(1911)
Doctoral advisor
William Edward Story[3]
Doctoral students
Edward Begle Richard Bellman Felix Browder Clifford Dowker George F. D. Duff Ralph Fox Ralph Gomory John McCarthy Robert Prim Paul A. Smith Norman Steenrod Arthur Harold Stone Clifford Truesdell Albert W. Tucker John Tukey Henry Wallman Shaun Wylie[3]
Other notable students
Sylvia de Neymet
Solomon LefschetzForMemRS (Russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.[3][1][4][5]
^ abHodge, W. V. D. (1973). "Solomon Lefschetz 1884-1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 19: 433–453. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0016. S2CID 122747688.
^"Mathematics in Mexico" (PDF). Sociedad Matematica Mexicana.
^ abcSolomon Lefschetz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^Markus, L. (1973). "Solomon Lefschetz: An appreciation in memoriam". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (4): 663–680. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1973-13256-2.
^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Solomon Lefschetz", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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dissertation, On the Lusternick–Schnirelmann Category, was directed by SolomonLefschetz. (In later years he disclaimed all knowledge of the Lusternik–Schnirelmann...
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Princeton University. He completed his Ph.D. under the direction of SolomonLefschetz, with a thesis titled Universal homology groups. Steenrod held positions...
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influential Princeton topology elite, which included Oswald Veblen, SolomonLefschetz, and others. He was one of the first members of the Institute for...
Connectedness and Coherence, was written in 1941 under the direction of SolomonLefschetz. He served as a referee for The American Mathematical Monthly journal...
Princeton in 1911. An important period for the journal was 1928–1958 with SolomonLefschetz as editor. During this time, it became an increasingly well-known...
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(1929–1930) Luther P. Eisenhart (1931–1932) Arthur Byron Coble (1933–1934) SolomonLefschetz (1935–1936) Robert Lee Moore (1937–1938) Griffith C. Evans (1939–1940)...
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