Edwin Moise
| Edwin Evariste Moise | |
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| Born |
December 22, 1918 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Died | December 18, 1998 (aged 79) New York, New York |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions |
University of Michigan Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Queens College |
| Alma mater | University of Texas |
| Doctoral advisor | R. L. Moore |
| Doctoral students |
James Munkres Peter Shalen |
| Known for |
3-manifolds SMSG |
Edwin Evariste Moise (/moʊˈiːz/; December 22, 1918 – December 18, 1998) was an American mathematician and mathematics education reformer. After his retirement from mathematics he became a literary critic of 19th century English poetry and had several notes published in that field.
Edwin E. Moise was born December 22, 1918 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University in 1940. He worked as a cryptanalyst and Japanese translator for the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations during World War II.
He received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Texas in 1947. His dissertation was titled "An indecomposable continuum which is homeomorphic to each of its nondegenerate subcontinua," a topic in continuum theory, and was written under the direction of R. L. Moore. In his dissertation Moise coined the term pseudo-arc.
Moise taught at the University of Michigan from 1947 to 1960. He was James B. Conant Professor of education and mathematics at Harvard University from 1960 to 1971. He held a Distinguished Professorship at Queens College, City University of New York from 1971 to 1987.
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