Leo Zippin
Leo Zippin · Science & Medicine
Topology; solution of Hilbert's fifth problem
1905, New York City, United States — 1995, United States
United States
Leo Zippin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Topology; solution of Hilbert's fifth problem
Zippin was a topologist who, with Andrew Gleason and Deane Montgomery, provided the affirmative solution to Hilbert's fifth problem, proving that a locally Euclidean topological group is a Lie group. He also wrote an accessible book on the concept of infinity. He was born to a Jewish immigrant family in New York.
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Topology; solution of Hilbert's fifth problem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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