• André Haefliger (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈandreː ˈhɛːflɪɡər]; 22 May 1929 – 7 March 2023) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily...
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  • Andrev Canadian: André Catalan: Andreu Czech: Andrej, Ondřej Dutch: André, Andries English: Andrew, André Estonian: Andres, André/Andre, Andero Finnish:...
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  • mathematics, a Haefliger structure on a topological space is a generalization of a foliation of a manifold, introduced by André Haefliger in 1970. Any foliation...
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  • Haefliger may refer to the following people: André Haefliger (1929-2023), Swiss mathematician Andreas Haefliger, Swiss pianist, son of Ernst Ernst Haefliger...
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    on the hyperfinite II1 factor, was written under the supervision of André Haefliger, and won him the Vacheron Constantin Prize. Jones moved to the United...
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    " He had 76 PhD students, including Georges Reeb, Wu Wenjun (吴文俊), André Haefliger, Valentin Poénaru, and Daniel Tanré. His first student was Jacques...
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    he coined the name orbifold, after a vote by his students; and by André Haefliger in the 1980s in the context of Mikhail Gromov's programme on CAT(k)...
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  • improved to e(n) ≤ 2n − 1 unless n is a power of 2. This is a result of André Haefliger and Morris Hirsch (for n > 4) and C. T. C. Wall (for n = 3); these...
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  • A. W. Gunn, 85, Canadian political philosopher. André Haefliger, 93, Swiss mathematician (Haefliger structure). Anton Ionescu, 83, Romanian politician...
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    to the question: does the 4-ball admit an exotic smooth structure? André Haefliger proved that there are no smooth j-dimensional knots in Sn provided...
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