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Proceedings of the Conference on Topological Dynamics held at Yale University on August 23, 1972, in honor of Professor Gustav Arnold Hedlund on the occasion of his retirement
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Proceedings of the Conference on Topological Dynamics held at Yale University on August 23, 1972, in honor of Professor Gustav Arnold Hedlund on the occasion of his retirement
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Beck, Anatole, ed. (1973), "Citation read to the Faculty of Graduate School of Yale University on the occasion of Professor Hedlund's retirement",
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In 1972, a conference on topological dynamics was held to honor Hedlund on the occasion of his retirement from Yale. The editor of the
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in Princeton 1962-1963. He retired from Yale in 1972, but afterwards held a visiting professorship at
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Hedlund, G. A. (1969), "Endomorphisms and Automorphisms of the Shift Dynamical Systems",
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One of Hedlund's early results was an important theorem about the
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While still studying at Columbia, Hedlund taught at
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Hedlund Papers, 1941-1945, 2008 703:20th-century American mathematicians 629: 382: 380: 341: 300: 274:, a topological characterization of 758:20th-century Swedish mathematicians 13: 763:American people of Swedish descent 14: 784: 773:Mathematicians from Massachusetts 377: 181:Hedlund was born May 7, 1904, in 189:, earned a master's degree from 623: 604: 589:10.1090/S0002-9904-1955-09999-3 553: 728:University of Virginia faculty 533: 498: 480: 446: 396: 1: 391:Mathematics Genealogy Project 323: 272:Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem 165:, was one of the founders of 218:Institute for Advanced Study 176: 7: 733:Wesleyan University faculty 507:Mathematical Systems Theory 464:David I. Lieberman (1989). 403:Hedlund, Gustav A. (1932). 246: 10: 789: 713:Columbia University alumni 488:Dynamics of Geodesic Flow. 212:, after which he moved to 723:Bryn Mawr College faculty 708:Harvard University alumni 183:Somerville, Massachusetts 152: 131: 119: 105: 95: 88: 74: 62: 55:Somerville, Massachusetts 40: 28: 21: 738:Yale University faculty 677:German National Library 305:Hedlund was elected to 718:Hunter College faculty 412:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 210:University of Virginia 114:University of Virginia 16:American mathematician 576:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc 387:Gustav Arnold Hedlund 316:from the conference, 222:Princeton, New Jersey 159:Gustav Arnold Hedlund 753:Cellular automatists 748:Topological dynamics 567:Topological dynamics 541:Topological Dynamics 493:Bulletin of the AMS. 291:Topological Dynamics 265:topological dynamics 243:and W. 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Somerville, Massachusetts
Columbia University
Harvard University
Mathematics
Yale University
University of Virginia
Doctoral advisor
Marston Morse
Walter Gottschalk
Annita Tuller
mathematician
symbolic
topological dynamics
Somerville, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Columbia University
Marston Morse
Hunter College
Bryn Mawr College
University of Virginia
Yale University
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey
IDA's Communications Research Division
Wesleyan University
academic descendants
Walter Gottschalk
ergodicity
geodesic flows

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