Banquet Address at the Smalefest

E. C. Zeeman

Chapter 9 in From Topology to Computation: Proceedings of the Smalefest, 1993, pp 79-80 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is a pleasure to wish Steve a happy birthday and to acknowledge the profound influence that he has had upon British mathematics. Prior to that influence, I remember the first lecture that I ever heard Henry Whitehead give way back in 1950: Henry was saying rather pessimistically that topologists had to give up the homeomorphism problem because it was too difficult and should content themselves with algebraic topology. Marshall Stone said much the same thing in a popular article called “The Revolution in Mathematics, ” that topology had been nearly completely swallowed up by algebra.

Keywords: Profound Influence; Algebraic Topology; Catastrophe Theory; Honorary Degree; Geometric Topology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2740-3_9

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