Gordon Thomas Whyburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gordon Thomas Whyburn

mathematician

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1904

Place of Birth: Lewisville, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1969

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gordon Thomas Whyburn

  • Gordon Thomas Whyburn (7 January 1904 Lewisville, Texas – 8 September 1969 Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology. Whyburn studied at the University of Texas in Austin, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1925.
  • Under the influence of his teacher Robert Lee Moore, Whyburn continued to study at Austin but changed to mathematics and earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1926 and then a PhD in 1927.
  • After two years as an adjunct professor at U.
  • of Texas, with the aid of a Guggenheim fellowship Whyburn spent the academic year 1929/1930 in Vienna with Hans Hahn and in Warsaw with Kuratowski and Sierpinski.
  • After the fellowship expired, Whyburn became a professor at Johns Hopkins University.
  • From 1934 he was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he modernized the mathematics department and spent the rest of his career.
  • He was chair of the department until his first heart attack in 1966; Edward J.
  • McShane joined the department in 1935, and Gustav A.
  • Hedlund was a member of the department from 1939 to 1948.
  • In the academic year 1952/1953 Whyburn was a visiting professor at Stanford University.
  • In 1953–1954 he served as president of the American Mathematical Society. Whyburn was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1938 and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1951.
  • His doctoral students include John L.
  • Kelley and Alexander Doniphan Wallace.His brother William Marvin Whyburn (1901–1972) was a mathematics professor at UCLA and became known for his work on ordinary differential equations.

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