Ralph Fox

Mathematician, Academic

1913 – 1973

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Who was Ralph Fox?

Ralph Hartzler Fox 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.

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Born
Mar 24, 1913
Morrisville
Also known as
  • Ralph H. Fox
  • Ralph Hartzler Fox
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Swarthmore College
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • PhD, Princeton University
    Mathematics
    ( - 1939)
Employment
  • Princeton University
Lived in
  • New Jersey
    (1945 - )
Died
Dec 23, 1973
Philadelphia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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