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Keywords
- surface theory
- Riemann
- calculus of variations
- symbolic dynamics
- Schoenflies
- functional topology
About this book
From the Introduction: “ Marston Morse was born in 1892, so that he was 33 years old when in 1925 his paper Relations between the critical points of a real-valued function of n independent variables appeared in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Thus Morse grew to maturity just at the time when the subject of Analysis Situs was being shaped by such masters as Poincaré, Veblen, L. E. J. Brouwer, G. D. Birkhoff, Lefschetz and Alexander, and it was Morse's genius and destiny to discover one of the most beautiful and far-reaching relations between this fledgling and Analysis; a relation which is now known as Morse Theory. In retrospect all great ideas take on a certain simplicity and inevitability, partly because they shape the whole subsequent development of the subject. And so to us, today, Morse Theory seems natural and inevitable. This whole flight of ideas was of course acclaimed by the mathematical World…it eventually earned him practicallyevery honor of the mathematical community, over twenty honorary degrees, the National Science Medal, the Legion of Honor of France, ...”
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Selected Papers
Authors: Marston Morse
Editors: Raoul Bott
Series Title: Springer Collected Works in Mathematics
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3415-7Published: 26 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2194-9875
Series E-ISSN: 2194-9883
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVIII, 882