Ralph Fox Scientist

This article is about the American mathematician. For the English communist writer, see Ralph Winston Fox.Ralph Hartzler Fox (March 24, 1913 – December 23, 1973) was an American mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization and main-streaming of knot theory.

Personal facts

Birth dateMarch 24, 1913
Birth place
Morrisville Bucks County Pennsylvania
Nationality
United States
Date of deathDecember 23, 1973
Place of death
Philadelphia
Education
Princeton University
Johns Hopkins University
Swarthmore College
Known for
Fox n-coloring
Wild arc

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Alan Goldman
Herman Gluck
Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr.
Field of study
Mathematics

Ralph Fox on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108072
  2. http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1945-51-06/S0002-9904-1945-08370-0