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Hans Freudenthal

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Hans Freudenthal · Science & Medicine

What

Topology and mathematics education; the suspension theorem

When

1905, Luckenwalde, Germany — 1990, Utrecht, Netherlands

Where

Netherlands · Germany

Biography

Hans Freudenthal is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Topology and mathematics education; the suspension theorem

How & why

Hans Freudenthal was a mathematician known for the Freudenthal suspension theorem in topology and for pioneering work in the mathematics of Lie groups, who later became one of the twentieth century's most influential reformers of mathematics education. The Freudenthal Institute is named for him. He was Jewish and survived the war in the occupied Netherlands.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Topology and mathematics education; the suspension theorem

1905

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics