J. H. C. Whitehead

J. H. C. Whitehead

John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960.

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