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    and Mary Hassler Newcomb, granddaughter of the first superintendent of the Coast Survey Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler. His great uncle Josiah Whitney was the...
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  • differential topology, there are two Whitney embedding theorems, named after Hassler Whitney: The strong Whitney embedding theorem states that any smooth...
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    (1872–1930) Hassler Whitney (1907–1989) Henry Melville Whitney (1839–1923) James Scollay Whitney (1811–1878) Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975) John Hay Whitney (1905–1982)...
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  • have prescribed derivatives at the points of A. It is a result of Hassler Whitney. A precise statement of the theorem requires careful consideration...
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  • In differential topology, the Whitney immersion theorem (named after Hassler Whitney) states that for m > 1 {\displaystyle m>1} , any smooth m {\displaystyle...
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  • S^{1}\times \mathbb {R} } , is zero. The Stiefel–Whitney class was named for Eduard Stiefel and Hassler Whitney and is an example of a Z / 2 Z {\displaystyle...
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    In geometry, the Whitney umbrella or Whitney's umbrella, named after American mathematician Hassler Whitney, and sometimes called a Cayley umbrella, is...
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  • smooth manifolds. They are named after the American mathematician Hassler Whitney. Let M and N be two real, smooth manifolds. Furthermore, let C∞(M,N)...
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  • the interchange graph, the adjoint graph, and the derived graph. Hassler Whitney (1932) proved that with one exceptional case the structure of a connected...
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    be different for two isomorphic graphs. The Whitney graph isomorphism theorem, shown by Hassler Whitney, states that two connected graphs are isomorphic...
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