Jeffrey H. Smith

Jeffrey H. Smith
Nationality United States
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Purdue University
Alma mater MIT
Doctoral advisor Daniel Kan

Jeffrey Henderson Smith is a former professor of mathematics at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, under the supervision of Daniel Kan,[1] and was promoted to full professor at Purdue in 1999.[2] His primary research interest is algebraic topology; his best-cited work[3] consists of two papers in the Annals of Mathematics on "nilpotence and stable homotopy".

References

  1. Jeffrey Henderson Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. Math PUrview, Summer 1999, retrieved 2010-01-23.
  3. Google scholar, accessed 2010-01-23.


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