Daniel Henry Gottlieb
Mathematics Department
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1395


I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from S.T. Hu in 1962 at UCLA. My specialty is Topology. My interests have broadened to Mathematical Physics and the History of Mathematics in recent years. My conviction that the topological invariants of the degree of a map and index of a vector field must describe basic physical ideas led me to Physics. I turned to the History of Mathematics in order to test my assertion that Mathematics is the study of Well-defined concepts. I also believe that mathematicians are the guardians and exemplars of critical reasoning. Just as English Professors speak out against misuse of language, so should mathematicians speak out against shoddy reasoning. Nowhere in our society is the lack of careful reasoning more prevalent than in the legal profession. Therefore I will include essays on Mathematics and the Law.

Mathematics and the Law

I have written over fifty papers in Mathematics. They range over general topology, combinatorics, homotopy theory, differential manifolds, transfers, evaluation subgroups, Group actions, classical topological invariants, function spaces, fiber bundles, applications of topology to group theory, robotics, and general relativity as well as the history of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.

RESEARCH:

Papers on line

List of publications

List of reviewed publications for non mathscinet subscribers

List of reviewed publications for mathscinet subscribers

PH.D. STUDENTS:

  • George Lang (1970), Purdue
  • Ryuji Maehara (1972), Iowa State
  • Murad Ozaydin (1984), Purdue
  • Craig Johnson (1989), Purdue
  • Chen Benjamin (1990), Purdue
  • Malhab Keirouz (1991), Purdue
  • Geetha Samaranayake (1993), Purdue

    CO-AUTHORS:

  • N.J. Rothman
  • J.C. Becker
  • Andrew Casson
  • K.B. Lee
  • Murad Ozaydin
  • Giora Dula
  • Geetha Samaranayake
  • Chen-Farng Benjamin

    Courses Offered





    CURRENT COURSES:


  • 173 Calculus, Fall 2005


    PAST COURSES


  • Information



    gottlieb@math.purdue.edu
    Office Number: Mathematical Sciences Bldg., 730
    Office Phone: 765-494-1951
    FAX: 765-494-0548
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    Other Web points of interest:

  • Colloquium 2000 - 2001
  • 1999Colloquium
  • Purdue Mathematics Department Home Page
  • Purdue University Home Page
  • Gottlieb's public bookmarks

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