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Robert Sorgenfrey

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Robert Sorgenfrey
Born(1915-08-14)August 14, 1915[1]
DiedJanuary 7, 1996(1996-01-07) (aged 80)[2]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin[3]
Scientific career
Fieldsgeneral topology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Concerning Triodic Continua  (1941)
Doctoral advisorR.L. Moore

Robert Henry Sorgenfrey (August 14, 1915 – January 7, 1996) was an American mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[4] The Sorgenfrey line and the Sorgenfrey plane are named after him; the Sorgenfrey line was the first example of a normal topological space whose product with itself is not normal.

References

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  1. ^ Iowa County Births: Robert Henry Sorgenfrey
  2. ^ California Death Index: Robert Henry Sorgenfrey
  3. ^ Robert Sorgenfrey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Robert Sorgenfrey". www.senate.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2000-08-24.