Hassler Whitney

16.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Hassler Whitney is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hassler Whitney has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Geometry and Topology, 2 papers in Applied Mathematics and 1 paper in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Hassler Whitney's work include Nonlinear Differential Equations Analysis (2 papers), Mathematics and Applications (2 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (1 paper). Hassler Whitney is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Differential Equations Analysis (2 papers), Mathematics and Applications (2 papers) and Advanced Control Systems Optimization (1 paper). Hassler Whitney collaborates with scholars based in United States. Hassler Whitney's co-authors include Albrecht Dold, François Bruhat and Andrew M. Gleason and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, American Mathematical Monthly and Pacific Journal of Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Hassler Whitney

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Geometric Integration Theory

1957 745 citations Hassler Whitney Princeton University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hassler Whitney United States	13	785	603	528	375	310	18	2.0k
P. Túrán Hungary	21	427 0.5×	470 0.8×	1.2k 2.3×	543 1.4×	220 0.7×	77	2.7k
Louis Auslander United States	18	629 0.8×	600 1.0×	424 0.8×	193 0.5×	126 0.4×	60	1.6k
Harley Flanders United States	18	285 0.4×	207 0.3×	310 0.6×	368 1.0×	187 0.6×	98	1.7k
Wilhelm Klingenberg Germany	23	1.2k 1.6×	701 1.2×	1.3k 2.5×	268 0.7×	173 0.6×	90	2.5k
Georg Pólya United States	15	465 0.6×	607 1.0×	976 1.8×	701 1.9×	157 0.5×	36	2.2k
William S. Massey United States	24	1.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.9×	430 0.8×	603 1.6×	147 0.5×	47	2.5k
Michael Spivak United States	5	677 0.9×	394 0.7×	731 1.4×	276 0.7×	337 1.1×	9	2.4k
Edgar H. Brown United States	18	914 1.2×	873 1.4×	304 0.6×	288 0.8×	78 0.3×	55	1.8k
Srishti D. Chatterji Switzerland	10	496 0.6×	579 1.0×	236 0.4×	255 0.7×	126 0.4×	25	1.6k
F. W. Warner United States	14	934 1.2×	840 1.4×	1.6k 3.0×	717 1.9×	112 0.4×	20	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hassler Whitney

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hassler Whitney. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hassler Whitney based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Hassler Whitney. Hassler Whitney is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Whitney, Hassler. (1985). Taking responsibility in school mathematics education.. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior. 25 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1979). Comment on the Division of the Plane by Lines. American Mathematical Monthly. 86(8). 700–700. 2 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1979). Comment on the Division of the Plane by Lines. American Mathematical Monthly. 86(8). 700–700.

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Whitney, Hassler. (1972). Complex Analytic Varieties. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 207 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1968). The Mathematics of Physical Quantities. American Mathematical Monthly. 75(2). 115–138. 21 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1968). The Mathematics of Physical Quantities: Part II: Quantity Structures and Dimensional Analysis. American Mathematical Monthly. 75(3). 227–227. 11 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1968). The Mathematics of Physical Quantities. American Mathematical Monthly. 75(3). 227–256. 22 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1968). The Mathematics of Physical Quantities Part I: Mathematical Models for Measurement. American Mathematical Monthly. 75(2). 115–115. 21 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1965). Tangents to an Analytic Variety. Annals of Mathematics. 81(3). 496–496. 198 indexed citations

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Gleason, Andrew M. & Hassler Whitney. (1962). The extension of linear functionals defined onH^∞. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 12(1). 163–182. 42 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1959). On Bounded Functions with Bounded nth Differences. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 10(3). 480–480. 1 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler & François Bruhat. (1959). Quelques propriétés fondamentales des ensembles analytiques-réels. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 33(1). 132–160. 63 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1959). On bounded functions with bounded 𝑛th differences. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 10(3). 480–481. 3 indexed citations

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Dold, Albrecht & Hassler Whitney. (1959). Classification of Oriented Sphere Bundles Over A 4-Complex. Annals of Mathematics. 69(3). 667–667. 72 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1957). Elementary Structure of Real Algebraic Varieties. Annals of Mathematics. 66(3). 545–545. 203 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1957). Geometric Integration Theory. Princeton University Press eBooks. 745 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whitney, Hassler. (1955). On Singularities of Mappings of Euclidean Spaces. I. Mappings of the Plane into the Plane. Annals of Mathematics. 62(3). 374–374. 295 indexed citations

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Whitney, Hassler. (1951). On totally differentiable and smooth functions. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 1(1). 143–159. 73 indexed citations

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