J. H. C. Whitehead
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS , known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai , in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960.
J. H. C. Whitehead's Published Works
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Published Works
- Combinatorial homotopy. II (1949) (781)
- Simplicial Spaces, Nuclei and m‐Groups (1939) (453)
- A Certain Exact Sequence (1950) (321)
- On Adding Relations to Homotopy Groups (1941) (296)
- On Equivalent Sets of Elements in a Free Group (1936) (240)
- On the 3-Type of a Complex. (1950) (213)
- Simple Homotopy Types (1950) (205)
- On C 1 -Complexes (1940) (195)
- On Certain Sets of Elements in a Free Group (1936) (174)
- The Homotopy Theory of Sphere Bundles Over Spheres (I) (1954) (165)
- A CERTAIN OPEN MANIFOLD WHOSE GROUP IS UNITY (1935) (152)
- Methods of Algebraic Geometry, II (1948) (135)
- On simply connected, 4-dimensional polyhedra (1949) (133)
- An Expression of Hopf's Invariant as an Integral. (1947) (126)
- CONVEX REGIONS IN THE GEOMETRY OF PATHS (1932) (122)
- Note on a Previous Paper Entitled On Adding Relations to Homotopy Groups (1946) (115)
- On the Covering of a Complete Space by the Geodesics Through a Point (1935) (87)
- On the asphericity of regions in a 3-sphere (1939) (78)
- Duality in homotopy theory (1955) (76)
- Note on a theorem due to Borsuk (1948) (67)
- The Foundations of Differential Geometry (1932) (67)
- On Incidence Matrices, Nuclei and Homotopy Types (1941) (64)
- A proof and extension of Dehn's lemma (1958) (60)
- Manifolds with Transverse Fields in Euclidean Space (1961) (57)
- On Operators in Relative Homotopy Groups (1948) (57)
- IMBEDDING OF MANIFOLDS IN EUCLIDEAN SPACE (1961) (53)
- On 2-spheres in 3-manifolds (1958) (53)
- The Representation of Projective Spaces (1931) (52)
- The Immersion of an Open 3‐Manifold in Euclidean 3‐Space (1961) (51)
- On Doubled Knots (1937) (50)
- On the homotopy type of ANR's (1948) (40)
- Vector Fields on the n-Sphere. (1951) (39)
- On the Groups πr(Vn,m) and Sphere‐Bundles (1945) (35)
- A First Approximation to Homotopy Theory. (1953) (34)
- On the Realizability of Homotopy Groups (1949) (31)
- Note on Fibre Spaces (1954) (31)
- A Set of Axioms for Differential Geometry. (1931) (30)
- On the Theory of Obstructions (1951) (28)
- CONVEX REGIONS IN THE GEOMETRY OF PATHS—ADDENDUM (1933) (26)
- On the Homotopy Type of Manifolds (1940) (26)
- On finite cocycles and the sphere theorem (1958) (25)
- The homotopy type of a special kind of polyhedron (1948) (23)
- On the Decomposition of an Infinitesimal Group (1936) (23)
- ON THE GROUP OF A CERTAIN LINKAGE (1937) (22)
- Certain theorems about three-dimensional manifolds (i) (1934) (20)
- On analytical complexes (1933) (20)
- The First Non-Vanishing Group of an (n+l)-AD (1956) (20)
- CERTAIN EQUATIONS IN THE ALGEBRA OF A SEMI-SIMPLE INFINITESIMAL GROUP (1937) (20)
- On fibre spaces in which the fibre is contractible (1955) (19)
- On group extensions with operators (1950) (16)
- A Certain Region in Euclidean 3-Space. (1935) (15)
- On Subdivisions of Complexes (1935) (14)
- NOTE ON MANIFOLDS (1941) (13)
- HOMOLOGY WITH ZERO COEFFICIENTS (1958) (11)
- On Involutions of Spheres (1957) (11)
- NOTE ON SUSPENSION (1950) (10)
- On a Class of Projectively Flat Affine Connections (1931) (10)
- The G-Dual of a Semi-Exact Couple (1953) (9)
- OBSTRUCTIONS TO COMPRESSION (1955) (8)
- TRREE-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS (CORRIGENDUM) (1935) (8)
- On linear connections (1931) (8)
- On the (n+2)‐Type of an (n−1)‐Connected Complex (n⩾4) (1954) (8)
- Duality in Topology (1956) (7)
- Locally Homogeneous Spaces in Differential Geometry (1932) (7)
- A METHOD OF OBTAINING NORMAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR A PROJECTIVE CONNECTION. (1930) (6)
- The Secondary Boundary Operator. (1950) (6)
- NOTE ON COHOMOLOGY SYSTMES (1951) (5)
- On the Second Non‐Vanishing Homotopy Groups of Pairs and Triads (1955) (4)
- Contributions to the Calculus of Variations, 1931-1932 (1934) (4)
- Note on the condition $n$-colc. (1957) (4)
- THE WEIERSTRASS E-FUNCTION IN DIFFERENTIAL METRIC GEOMETRY (1933) (4)
- Affine spaces of paths which are symmetric about each point (1932) (4)
- On the Groups πr(Vn, m) and Sphere‐Bundles.: Corrigendum (1946) (3)
- On Duality and Intersection Chains in Combinatorial Analysis Situs (1932) (3)
- On the Exact Couple of a CW‐Triad (1955) (3)
- Note on Linear Associative Algebras (1941) (2)
- On Normalizators of Transformation Groups (1952) (2)
- Note on Maurer's Equations (1932) (2)
- ON CERTAIN INVARIANTS INTRODUCED BY REIDEMEISTER (1939) (2)
- Elie Joseph Cartan 1869-1951 (1952) (1)
- The Classical Groups Topological Groups (1940) (0)
- Records of Proceedings at Meetings: Session November, 1953–June, 1954 (1954) (0)
- An example in homotopy theory (1957) (0)
- Records of Proceedings at Meetings Session November, 1954—June (1955) (0)
- Mathematics at the British association, 1933 (1933) (0)
- The mathematical works of J.H.C. Whitehead (1965) (0)
- Intrinsic geometry of ideal space (1936) (0)
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