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Robert Sorgenfrey
American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1915 to 1996 · aged 80
Robert Henry Sorgenfrey was an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles at UCLA until his retirement in 1979.
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About this person
The Sorgenfrey line and the Sorgenfrey plane are named after him; the Sorgenfrey line was the first example of a normal topological space whose product with itself is not normal.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1915 to 1996 · aged 80