Leo Zippin
Leo Zippin (born January 25, 1905 in New York City , † May 11, 1995 there ) was an American mathematician .
Zippin received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1929 . From 1929 he was a lecturer at Pennsylvania State College and 1930 to 1932 at the University of Texas. From 1938 he was a professor at Queens College in New York, where he retired in 1971. In 1945 and 1950/1 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .
Zippin was one of those (with Andrew Gleason , Deane Montgomery , Hidehiko Yamabe ) who solved the 5th Hilbert problem in the 1950s (to show that locally Euclidean groups are Lie groups, that is, have differentiable group effects).
Leo Zippin had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1970 .
Fonts
- with Deane Montgomery : Topological transformation groups , Interscience 1955, Krieger 1974
- The uses of infinity , Random House 1962 (New Mathematics Library)
literature
- Benjamin H. Yandell: The honors class. Hilbert's problems and their solvers. AK Peters, Natick MA 2001
Web links
- Literature by and about Leo Zippin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Obituary in the New York Times
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zippin, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1995 |
| Place of death | New York City |