About Robert Sorgenfrey
Lived 1915 – 1996 (aged 80). Robert Sorgenfrey was an American mathematician and university teacher.
Robert Henry Sorgenfrey (August 14, 1915 – January 7, 1996) was an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles at UCLA until his retirement in 1979. 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.
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Who was Robert Sorgenfrey?
American mathematician
When was Robert Sorgenfrey born?
Robert Sorgenfrey was born on 14 August 1915 in Sunbury.
When did Robert Sorgenfrey die?
Robert Sorgenfrey died on 7 January 1996 in Los Angeles.
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Robert Sorgenfrey was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Robert Sorgenfrey was American.
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