Gordon Thomas Whyburn

Gordon Thomas Whyburn (7 January 1904 Lewisville, Texas – 8 September 1969 Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology. He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1938 and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1951.

Publications

• Whyburn, Gordon Thomas (1942), Analytic Topology, American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, 28, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-1028-6, MR0007095, http://books.google.com/books?id=niByQPkPObwC 
• Whyburn, Gordon Thomas (1958), Topological analysis, Princeton Mathematical Series, 23, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-08054-3, MR0099642, http://books.google.com/books?id=OG6zAAAAIAAJ 
• Whyburn, Gordon; Duda, Edwin (1979), Dynamic topology, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90358-3, MR526764, http://books.google.com/books?id=b0EZAQAAIAAJ 

References

• Floyd, E. E.; Jones, F. B. (1971), "Gordon T. Whyburn 1904–1969", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 77: 57–72, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1971-12606-X, ISSN 0002-9904, MR0266736 
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gordon Thomas Whyburn", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whyburn.html .

Persondata
Name	Whyburn, Gordon Thomas
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	7 January 1904
Place of birth	Lewisville, Texas
Date of death	8 September
Place of death	Charlottesville, Virginia