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Edwin Spanier

Mathematics

#919

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#1610

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#403

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Measure Theory

#2175

World Rank

#2620

Historical Rank

#620

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PhD Mathematics University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Edwin Henry Spanier was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology .

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Edwin Spanier's Published Works

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Semigroups, Presburger formulas, and languages. (1966) (404)
Algebraic Topology (1990) (280)
BOUNDED ALGOL-LIKE LANGUAGES^) (1964) (263)
How to Cut a Cake Fairly (1961) (183)
Finite-Turn Pushdown Automata (1966) (172)
Bounded -like languages (1964) (129)
BOUNDED REGULAR SETS (1966) (99)
Function Spaces and Duality (1959) (89)
Derivation-Bounded Languages (1968) (89)
Duality in homotopy theory (1955) (76)
Infinite Symmetric Products, Function Spaces, and Duality (1959) (71)
Borsuk's Cohomotopy Groups (1949) (65)
A theorem on orientable surfaces in four-dimensional space (1951) (59)
AFL with the Semilinear Property (1971) (57)
Cohomology Theory for General Spaces (1948) (54)
Control sets on grammars (1968) (46)
Mappings of languages by two-tape devices (1964) (43)
Secondary Operations on Mappings and Cohomology (1962) (41)
Set theory and metric spaces (1955) (41)
The homology of Kummer manifolds (1956) (40)
Two remarks on fiber homotopy type. (1960) (36)
A First Approximation to Homotopy Theory. (1953) (34)
WITH VALUES IN A BANACH SPACE (1988) (33)
Quotients of Context-Free Languages (1963) (32)
Substitution in families of languages (1970) (30)
H-spaces and duality (1962) (30)
Singular homology and cohomology with local coefficients and duality for manifolds. (1993) (30)
The Homology Structure of Sphere Bundles. (1950) (22)
Review: S. Eilenberg and N. Steenrod, Foundations of algebraic topology (1958) (20)
On fibre spaces in which the fibre is contractible (1955) (19)
The Mayer homology theory (1949) (18)
DUALITY IN RELATIVE HOMOTOPY THEORY (1958) (18)
The Structure of Context-Free Grammatical Families (1977) (16)
HIGHER ORDER OPERATIONS (1963) (15)
THE THEORY OF CARRIERS AND S-THEORY (1962) (15)
Tautness for Alexander-Spanier cohomology. (1978) (11)
The homotopy excision theorem. (1967) (10)
Involutions and Fredholm Maps (1971) (9)
On Incomparable Abstract Family of Languages (AFL) (1974) (9)
OBSTRUCTIONS TO COMPRESSION (1955) (8)
Cohomology with supports (1986) (8)
On Completing Tables to Satisfy Functional Dependencies (1985) (6)
Review: John W. Milnor and James D. Stasheff, Characteristic classes (1975) (6)
Duality and ${\text{S}}$-theory (1956) (6)
Cohomology theories on spaces (1987) (5)
Referenced Automata and Metaregular Families (1969) (5)
McGraw-Hill Book Company (1966) (4)
On the imbeddability of certain complexes in euclidean spaces (1960) (4)
Distinguishability of a semi-group by a machine (1961) (4)
Correction to "Infinite Symmetric Products, Function Spaces, and Duality" (1959) (3)
Grammars and Languages (1969) (3)
A Prime Decomposition Theorem for Grammatical Families (1982) (2)
On the Equality of Grammatical Families (1983) (2)
Pushdown Acceptor Forms (1977) (2)
Locally constant cohomology (1992) (1)
Substitution of grammar forms (1975) (1)
Spectral Sequences and Homotopy Groups of Spheres (1966) (1)
The Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (1970) (1)
Covering Spaces and Fibrations (1966) (1)
Compact perturbations and degree theory (1970) (1)
Cohomology Theories on Compact and Locally Compact Spaces. (1986) (1)
Weakly additive cohomology (1990) (1)
Book Review: Foundations of algebraic topology (1958) (0)
Grammatical Families of Languages (1986) (0)
General Cohomology Theory and Duality (1966) (0)
Recollections of P.R. Halmos at Chicago (1991) (0)
Algebraic topology / Edwin H. Spanier (1978) (0)
A FIRST APPROXIMATION TO HOMOTOPY THEORY (1962) (0)
NOTE ON THE GEBA-GRANAS THEORY OF COMPACT FIELDS (1969) (0)
On equivariant cohomology (1992) (0)
Homotopy and the Fundamental Group (1966) (0)
A formula of Atiyah and Hirzebruch (1962) (0)

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