Leo Zippin
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Leo Zippin's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leo Zippin was an American mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Biography Leo Zippin was born in 1905 to Bella Salwen and Max Zippin, who had emigrated to New York City from the Ukraine in 1903. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. His doctoral adviser was John Robert Kline.
Leo Zippin's Published Works
Published Works
- Topological Transformation Groups (1956) (1170)
- Small Subgroups of Finite-Dimensional groups. (1952) (63)
- A theorem of Lie groups (1942) (61)
- Small Subgroups of Finite-Dimensional Groups (1952) (49)
- Examples of transformation groups (1954) (42)
- Countable Torsion Groups (1935) (32)
- Singular Points of a Compact Transformation Group (1956) (27)
- On Continuous Curves and the Jordan Curve Theorem (1930) (24)
- On Semicompact Spaces (1935) (22)
- Periodic one-parameter groups in three-space (1936) (16)
- Uses of infinity (1962) (13)
- A study of continuous curves and their relation to the Janiszewski-Mullikin theorem (1929) (12)
- Existence of Subgroups Isomorphic to the Real Numbers (1951) (11)
- Translation Groups of Three-Space (1937) (11)
- Two-ended topological groups (1950) (11)
- A Class of Transformation Groups in E n (1943) (8)
- A Characterisation of the Closed 2-Cell (1933) (6)
- Compact Abelian transformation groups (1938) (6)
- On a problem of N. Aronszajn and an axiom of R. L. Moore (1931) (5)
- Independent Arcs of a Continuous Curve (1933) (5)
- Discrete Abelian Groups and Their Character Groups (1935) (4)
- Non-Abelian Compact Connected Transformation Groups of Three-Space (1939) (3)
- On Continuous Curves Irreducible about Subsets (1933) (3)
- Topological group foundations of rigid space geometry (1940) (3)
- A theorem on the rotation group of the two-sphere (1940) (2)
- Four-Dimensional Groups (1952) (1)
- Generalization of a Theorem Due to C. M. Cleveland (1932) (1)
- Two-dimensional subgroups (1951) (1)
- Uses of Infinity: Constructions and Proofs (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: USES OF INFINITY (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: Zig-Zags: To the Limit if the Limit Exists (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: Solutions to Problems (1962) (0)
- THE DEVELOPMENT THE THEORY OF p (2003) (0)
- On monotonic complete covering systems (1936) (0)
- What is Mathematics and How do we Teach it (1970) (0)
- On a problem of Čech (1936) (0)
- Correction to a paper: “The Moore-Kline problem” [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1932), no. 3, 705–721; 1501658] (1933) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: Preface (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: Popular and Mathematical Infinities (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: Bibliography (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: The Self Perpetuating Golden Rectangle (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: From Natural Numbers to √2 (1962) (0)
- Uses of Infinity: From √2 to the Transfinite (1962) (0)
- Correction to a Paper on the Moore-Kline Problem (1933) (0)
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