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Sumner Byron Myers
American mathematician (1910-1955) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 45
Sumner Byron Myers was an American mathematician specializing in topology and differential geometry. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932.
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Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University (1934-1936) before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during the 1955 Michigan-Army football game at Michigan Stadium.