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Hassler Whitney

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. Harvard University 1932

Dissertation: The Coloring of Graphs

Advisor: George David Birkhoff

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Richard Chamberlin	Harvard University	1950	7
James Eells	Harvard University	1954	195
Franklin Haimo	Harvard University	1947	8
Wilfred Kaplan	Harvard University	1939	57
Paul Olum	Harvard University	1947	40
Herbert Robbins	Harvard University	1938	638

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