Morris Hirsch

Morris Hirsch
Born	June 28, 1933 (1933-06-28) (age 78) Chicago, Illinois
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Edwin Spanier Stephen Smale
Doctoral students	Duane Cooper William Goldman David Spring William Thurston

Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American mathematician, formerly at the University of California, Berkeley.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958, under supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale.^[1] His thesis was entitled Immersions of Manifolds.

References

1. ^ http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=6481

External links

• Website at the University of California, Berkeley
• Morris Hirsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.