Bernard Morin
Bernard C. Morin (born March 3, 1931 in Shanghai - † March 12, 2018 ) was a French mathematician who dealt with topology .
Morin went blind at the age of 6, but nevertheless embarked on a successful career as a mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg . From 1966 to 1968 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .
Stephen Smale had shown in 1959 that the "eversion" of the 2- sphere , i. H. a regular homotopy in 3- dimensional space , which turns the inside of a sphere outwards (and avoids any folds and cracks), was possible. Morin, Anthony Phillips and Arnold Shapiro found an explicit construction . Morin's version was also portrayed in a 1977 computer-animated film directed by Nelson Max.
Fonts
- Bernard Morin, Jean-Pierre Petit: Le retournement de la sphere , Pour la Science, January 1979
- Bernard Morin: Equations du retournement de la sphere , Compte Rendue Acad. Sci., Vol. 287, 1978
Web links
- Photos of Morins with stereolithography models of the spherical eversion.
- Part 1 and Part 2 of a more modern video on the subject of Sphere Inside out
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to The Institute for Advanced Study , Faculty and Members 1930–1980
- ↑ Obituary , accessed on September 17, 2018
- ↑ Smale: A classification of immersions of the 2-sphere , Transactions AMS, Volume 90, 1959, p. 281
- ^ Phillips: Turning a sphere inside out , Scientific American, Volume 214, May 1966, p. 112
- ^ Morin, George Francis: Arnold Shapiro's Eversion of the sphere , Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 2, 1979, p. 200
- ^ For example, John Sullivan The Optiverse and other sphere eversions , 1999, pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morin, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morin, Bernard C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 2018 |