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Jeff Cheeger

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Jeff Cheeger · Science & Medicine

What

Differential geometry; the Cheeger constant and inequality

When

1943, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Jeff Cheeger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Differential geometry; the Cheeger constant and inequality

How & why

Cheeger, an American Jewish mathematician at New York University, made deep contributions to differential geometry, including the Cheeger constant and inequality linking the geometry of a space to its spectrum, and finiteness and collapsing theorems for Riemannian manifolds. His ideas connect geometry, analysis and topology.

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Differential geometry; the Cheeger constant and inequality

1943

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics