LC control no. | n 83828835 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Whitehead, George W. (George William), 1918-2004 |
Variant(s) | Whitehead, George William, 1918- Whitehead, George W., Jr. (George William), 1918-2004 |
Located | Winchester, Mass. |
Birth date | 19180802 |
Death date | 20040412 |
Place of birth | Bloomington, Ill. |
Field of activity | Homotopy theory Algebraic topology |
Affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Profession or occupation | Mathematician College teacher |
Found in | LCCN 66-15792: His Homotopy theory, 1966 (hdg.: Whitehead, George William, 1918- ; usage: George W. Whitehead) LC data base, 1-9-84 (hdg.: Whitehead, George William, 1918- ; usage: George W. Whitehead) MIT news website, viewed July 18, 2013 (in obituary dated Apr. 28, 2004: George W. Whitehead Jr. of Winchester, Mass.; b. Aug. 2, 1918, Bloomington, Ill.; d. Apr. 12, aged 85; professor emeritus in MIT's Department of Mathematics; served on the MIT mathematics faculty, 1949-1985; one of the world's leading algebraic topologists and homotopy theorists) |
Associated language | eng |