Sze-Tsen Hu

Sze-Tsen Hu
胡世楨
Born	(1914-10-09)9 October 1914 Huzhou, Zhejiang, China
Died	6 May 1999(1999-05-06) (aged 84)
Other names	Steve Hu
Alma mater	National Central University University of Manchester
Occupation	Mathematician
Scientific career
Fields	Homotopy theory
Institutions	UCLA Wayne State University University of Georgia Tulane University Institute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisor	Max Newman

Sze-Tsen Hu (

mathematician, specializing in homotopy theory.

Hu received his B.S. from the National Central University in Nanking, China in 1938 and his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England in 1947 with thesis advisor Max Newman.^[2]

Hu held a visiting lectureship at Tulane University for 1949–1950 and was a visiting scholar from 1950 to 1952 at the

in 1950 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He was elected in 1966 to the

He was survived by his second wife, his son, and his daughter.

Selected works

Articles

• Hu, Sze-Tsen (January 1949). "Extension and classification of the mappings of a finite complex into a topological group or an n-sphere". Annals of Mathematics. 50 (1): 158–173.
  JSTOR 1969359
  .
• Hu, Sze-Tsen (1950). "On generalising the notion of fibre spaces to include the fibre bundles". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (6): 756–762.
  MR 0038657
  .
• Hu, Sze-Tsen (1951). "The equivalence of fiber bundles". Annals of Mathematics. 53 (2): 256–275.
  JSTOR 1969542
  .
• Hu, Sze-Tsen (1952). "On local structure of finite–dimensional groups". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 73 (3): 383–400.
  MR 0053118
  .
• Hu, Sze-Tsen (July 1953). "The homotopy addition theorem". Annals of Mathematics. 58 (1): 108–122.
  JSTOR 1969822
  .
• Hu, Sze-Tsen (1956). "Axiomatic approach to the homotopy groups". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (5): 490–504.
  MR 0080304
  .

Books

• Introduction to Homological Algebra. San Francisco: Holden Day. 1968.
• Homotopy theory. Academic Press. 1959.
  ISBN 9780123584502.^[4]
• Threshold Logic. University of California Press. 1965.
  ISBN 9780262040099
  .
• Introduction to General Topology. San Francisco: Holden Day. 1966.
• Homology theory. San Francisco: Holden Day. 1966.
• Cohomology theory. Chicago: Markham. 1968.
• Mathematical Theory of Switching Circuits and Automata. University of California Press. 1968.
• Differentiable Manifolds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969.

References