Guy Hirsch | |
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Born |
London |
20 September 1915
Died | 4 August 1993 Brussels |
(aged 77)
Alma mater | Université libre de Bruxelles |
Known for | algebraic topology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Université libre de Bruxelles |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred Errera |
Guy Hirsch (20 September 1915 – 4 August 1993) was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics, who worked on algebraic topology and epistemology of mathematics.
He became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 1973.
He is known for the Leray–Hirsch theorem, a basic result on the algebraic topology of fiber bundles that he proved independently of Jean Leray in the late 1940s.