Sumner Byron Myers
Mathematician, Academic
1910 – 1955
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Who was Sumner Byron Myers?
Sumner Byron Myers was an American mathematician specialized in topology. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he was graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932. Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan, where an award for outstanding students of mathematics has been named in his honor. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during a football game.
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- Born
- Feb 19, 1910
Boston - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Died
- 1955
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on July 23, 2013
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