Ernest Michael
American mathematician
Born on: August 26, 1925Died on: April 28, 2013
Aged: 87 years 245 days (1052 months)
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Virgo
Ernest A. Michael was a prominent American mathematician known for his work in the field of general topology, most notably for his pioneering research on set-valued mappings.
He is credited with developing the theory of continuous selections. The Michael selection theorem is named for him, which he proved in.
Michael is also known in topology for the Michael line, a paracompact space whose product with the topological space of the irrational numbers is not normal.
He wrote over 100 papers, mostly in the area of general topology.
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