Sumner Byron Myers
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American mathematician
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Sumner Byron Myers's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics Stanford University
- Masters Mathematics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sumner Byron Myers was an American mathematician specializing in topology and differential geometry. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932. Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during the 1955 Michigan–Army football game at Michigan Stadium.
Sumner Byron Myers's Published Works
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- The Group of Isometries of a Riemannian Manifold (1939) (351)
- Riemannian manifolds with positive mean curvature (1941) (326)
- Spaces of continuous functions (1949) (225)
- Connections between Differential Geometry and Topology. (1935) (101)
- Connections between differential geometry and topology. I. Simply connected surfaces (1935) (98)
- Riemannian manifolds in the large (1935) (62)
- Connections between differential geometry and topology II. Closed surfaces (1936) (47)
- Curvature of closed hypersurfaces and non-existence of closed minimal hypersurfaces (1951) (29)
- Parallel Plate Optics for Rapid Scanning (1947) (28)
- Banach Spaces of Continuous Functions (1948) (18)
- Arcs and geodesics in metric spaces (1945) (14)
- The Problems of Lagrange and Mayer with Variable End Points (1931) (13)
- Algebras of differentiable functions (1954) (10)
- Isometries of 2-Dimensional Riemannian Manifolds into Themselves. (1936) (9)
- Arc Length in Metric and Finsler Manifolds (1938) (6)
- Normed linear spaces of continuous functions (1950) (4)
- Adjoint systems in the problem of Mayer under general end-conditions (1932) (2)
- Sufficient conditions in the problem of the calculus of variations in $n$-space in parametric form and under general end conditions (1933) (2)
- Review: W. Blaschke, Integralgeometrie, and L. A. Santalo, Integralgeometrie, and W. Blaschke, Vorlesungen über Integralgeometrie, Vol. 1, and W. Blaschke, Vorlesungen über Integralgeometrie, Vol. 2, and W. Blaschke, Über eine geometrische Frage von Euclid bis Heute (1938) (1)
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