Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS, is a Japanese-born British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Zeeman's main contributions to mathematics were in topology, particularly in knot theory, the piecewise linear category, and dynamical systems.
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- Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS, is a Japanese-born British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Zeeman's main contributions to mathematics were in topology, particularly in knot theory, the piecewise linear category, and dynamical systems. His 1955 thesis at the University of Cambridge described a new theory termed "dihomology", an algebraic structure associated to a topological space, containing both homology and cohomology, introducing what is now known as the Zeeman spectral sequence. This was studied by Clint McCrory in his 1972 Brandeis thesis following a suggestion of Dennis Sullivan that one make "a general study of the Zeeman spectral sequence to see how singularities in a space perturb Poincare duality". This in turn led to the discovery of intersection homology by Robert MacPherson and Mark Goresky at Brown University where McCrory was appointed in 1974. Zeeman is known among the wider scientific public for his contribution to, and spreading awareness of catastrophe theory, which was due initially to another topologist, René Thom, and for his Christmas lectures about mathematics on television in 1978. He was especially active encouraging the application of mathematics, and catastrophe theory in particular, to biology and behavioural sciences.
- Erik Christopher Zeeman ist ein britischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Topologie und der Theorie dynamischer Systeme beschäftigt.
- Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, est un mathématicien anglais célèbre pour son travail en topologie géométrique et en théorie des singularités. Les principales contributions de Zeeman aux mathématiques concernent la topologie, et plus particulièrement la théorie des nœuds et les systèmes dynamiques (et piecewise linear category). Mais c'est pour sa contribution à la théorie des catastrophes du topologue René Thom, et ses efforts pour la diffuser, qu'il est le plus célèbre. Il encouragea l'application des mathématiques, et plus particulièrement de la théorie des catastrophes, en biologie et dans les sciences humaines.
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- Erik Christopher Zeeman in 1980, courtesy MFO
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- Professor Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman
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- Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS, is a Japanese-born British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Zeeman's main contributions to mathematics were in topology, particularly in knot theory, the piecewise linear category, and dynamical systems.
- Erik Christopher Zeeman ist ein britischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Topologie und der Theorie dynamischer Systeme beschäftigt.
- Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, est un mathématicien anglais célèbre pour son travail en topologie géométrique et en théorie des singularités. Les principales contributions de Zeeman aux mathématiques concernent la topologie, et plus particulièrement la théorie des nœuds et les systèmes dynamiques (et piecewise linear category). Mais c'est pour sa contribution à la théorie des catastrophes du topologue René Thom, et ses efforts pour la diffuser, qu'il est le plus célèbre.
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