Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American

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, formerly at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. A native of

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, Hirsch attained his

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from the

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in 1958, under supervision of

Edwin Spanier Edwin Henry Spanier (August 8, 1921 – October 11, 1996) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, ...

and

Stephen Smale Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics facult ...

. His thesis was entitled ''Immersions of Manifolds''. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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. Hirsch had 23 doctoral students, including

William Thurston William Paul Thurston (October 30, 1946August 21, 2012) was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds. Thurston ...

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, and

Mary Lou Zeeman Mary Lou Zeeman is a British mathematician at Bowdoin College in the US, where she is R. Wells Johnson Professor of Mathematics. She specializes in dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology; she helped found the SIAM Activity ...

Selected works

*with

and

Robert L. Devaney Robert Luke Devaney (born 1948) is an American mathematician, the Feld Family Professor of Teaching Excellence at Boston University. His research involves dynamical systems and fractals.. Education and career Devaney was born on April 9, 1948, a ...

: ''Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos'',

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2004 (2nd edition
3rd edition, 2013
*with Stephen Smale: ''Differential equations, dynamical systems and linear algebra'',

1974 *Differential Topology, Springer 1976, 1997 *with

Barry Mazur Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...

Smoothings of piecewise linear manifolds

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1974 *with Charles C. Pugh,

Michael Shub Michael Ira Shub (born August 17, 1943) is an American mathematician who has done research into dynamical systems and the complexity of real number algorithms. Biography Shub obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkele ...

: Invariant Manifolds, Springer 1977

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