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William S. Massey

Mathematics

#502

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#979

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#227

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#801

World Rank

#1064

Historical Rank

#309

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According to Wikipedia, William Schumacher Massey was an American mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology. The Massey product is named for him. He worked also on the formulation of spectral sequences by means of exact couples, and wrote several textbooks, including A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology .

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William S. Massey's Published Works

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Algebraic Topology: An Introduction (1977) (1202)
A basic course in algebraic topology (1991) (815)
Homology And Cohomology Theory (1978) (216)
Singular homology theory (1980) (141)
The Homotopy Groups of a Triad. III (1951) (100)
On the Stiefel-Whitney classes of a manifold. II (1962) (97)
The mod 2 cohomology structure of certain fibre spaces (1967) (95)
The Homotopy Groups of a Triad. (1949) (91)
Proof of a conjecture of Whitney. (1969) (90)
Cross products of vectors in higher dimensional euclidean spaces (1983) (83)
Surfaces of Gaussian curvature zero in Euclidean $3$-space (1962) (80)
Exact Couples in Algebraic Topology (Parts I and II) (1952) (77)
Homology and cohomology theory : an approach based on Alexander-Spanier cochains (1978) (67)
HIGHER ORDER LINKING NUMBERS (1998) (65)
Obstructions to the existence of almost complex structures (1961) (62)
Products in Homotopy Theory (1953) (62)
On the Cohomology Ring of a Sphere Bundle (1958) (60)
The Jacobi identity for Whitehead products (1957) (48)
On the normal bundle of a sphere imbedded in Euclidean space (1959) (47)
The 2 cohomology structure of certain fibre spaces (1967) (47)
PRODUCTS IN EXACT COUPLES (1954) (43)
The quotient space of the complex projective plane under conjugation is a 4-sphere (1973) (41)
Completion of link modules (1980) (41)
THE COHOMOLOGY OF RESTRICTED LIE ALGEBRAS AND OF HOPF ALGEBRAS 12 (1966) (39)
Some Problems in Algebraic Topology and the Theory of Fibre Bundles (1955) (35)
Algebraic Topology – A Student's Guide: Exact couples in algebraic topology (1972) (33)
How to Give an Exposition of the Čech-Alexander-Spanier Type Homology Theory (1978) (25)
Non-existence of almost-complex structures on quaternionic projective spaces. (1962) (25)
On the imbeddability of the real projective spaces in Euclidean space (1959) (19)
Introduction to homology theory (1968) (19)
Normal vector fields on manifolds (1961) (18)
Pontryagin squares in the Thom space of a bundle. (1969) (17)
ON A CONJECTURE OF K. MURASUGI (1986) (16)
Exact Couples in Algebraic Topology (Parts III, IV, and V) (1953) (14)
CHAPTER 21 – A History of Cohomology Theory (1999) (11)
Homotopy classification of 3-component links of codimension greater than 2 (1990) (11)
Sufficient conditions for a local homeomorphism to be injective (1992) (8)
Finite covering spaces of $2$-manifolds with boundary (1974) (8)
Line element fields on manifolds (1962) (6)
The homotopy type of certain configuration spaces (1992) (6)
Two-Dimensional Manifolds (1991) (5)
Notes on homology and cohomology theory (1964) (3)
Review: John McCleary, User's guide to spectral sequences (1987) (3)
Some new algebraic methods in topology (1954) (3)
Links with free groups are trivial (1981) (2)
Advanced Problems: 5789-5794 (1971) (1)
Review: S. Wylie and P. J. Hilton, Homology theory. An introduction to algebraic topology (1964) (1)
Products in Homology and Cohomology (1980) (1)
Shorter Notes: Links with Free Groups are Trivial (1981) (1)
Background and Motivation for Homology Theory (1980) (1)
Algebraic Topology: A First Course. By William Fulton (1996) (1)
Definitions and Basic Properties of Homology Theory (1980) (0)
THE OCTOBER MEETING IN NEW YORK The four hundred fiftieth meeting of the American Mathematical (2007) (0)
The Fundamental Group (1991) (0)
THE BLAKERS-MASSEY THEOREM (2016) (0)
Determination of the Homology Groups of Certain Spaces : Applications and Further Properties of Homology Theory (1980) (0)
Homology with Arbitrary Coefficient Groups (1980) (0)
Free Groups and Free Products of Groups (1991) (0)
Cup Products in Projective Spaces and Applications of Cup Products (1980) (0)
Review: L. S. Pontryagin, Foundations of combinatorial topology (1953) (0)
Review: Sze-Tsen Hu, Homotopy theory (1960) (0)
Seifert and Van Kampen Theorem on the Fundamental Group of the Union of Two Spaces. Applications (1991) (0)
The Homology of Product Spaces (1980) (0)
NORMAL VECTOR FIELDS ON MANIFOLDS1 (2010) (0)
Homology of CW-complexes (1980) (0)
Duality Theorems for the Homology of Manifolds (1980) (0)
APPENDIX TO III. ON THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP OF CERTAIN FIBRE SPACES (1963) (0)

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