James Munkres

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James Raymond Munkres (born February 18, 1930 in Omaha , Nebraska ) is an American mathematician who studies differential topology and combinatorial topology.

Munkres studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1952 and a doctorate with Edwin Moise in 1956 ( Some applications of triangulation theorems ). From 1955 to 1957 he was an instructor at the University of Michigan and from 1957 at Princeton University ( Fine Instructor ). In 1960 he became Assistant Professor and 1966 Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he retired in 2000.

He developed an obstruction theory of smoothing homeomorphisms. Munkres is known for an introductory textbook on topology and has written several other textbooks.

The Kuhn-Munkres algorithm is named after him and Harold W. Kuhn . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . From 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Research Fellow.

Munkres has been married since 1964 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Topology -a first course, Prentice-Hall 1974, 2nd edition 2000
  • Elementary Differential Topology, Princeton University Press, 1963, 1966
  • Elementary Linear Algebra, Addison-Wesley 1964
  • Elements of Algebraic Topology, Addison-Wesley 1984
  • Analysis on Manifolds, Addison-Wesley 1991

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Munkres Obstructions to the smoothing of piecewise-differentiable homeomorphisms , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 72, 1960, and announcement in Bulletin AMS, Volume 65, 1959, pp. 332-334, Online ( Memento des original from March 4, 2016 on the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / projecteuclid.org