Marston Morse and his mathematical works

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14824-7zbMath0469.01012WikidataQ56442642 ScholiaQ56442642MaRDI QIDQ3922637

Raoul Bott

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) History of global analysis (58-03)

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