biography
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Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler
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pronunciation:
[iyznhah(r)t]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1965)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in York, Pennsylvania, USA. He taught at Princeton his entire career (1923–45), and focused largely on two aspects of differential geometry: surfaces (deformations, systems) and (after 1921) generalization of Riemannian geometry. A prolific writer of textbooks, he also wrote on historical topics. |
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