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Richard Gordon Swan

MathSciNet

Ph.D. Princeton University 1957

Dissertation: Spaces with Finite Groups of Transformations

Advisor: John Coleman Moore

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
John Burroughs	The University of Chicago	1968
Maynard Kong	The University of Chicago	1976
Steven Landsburg	The University of Chicago	1979
Barton Plumstead	The University of Chicago	1979
Charles Weibel	The University of Chicago	1977	3

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