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词条 Bernard Morin
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. References

  6. External links

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Bernard Morin ({{IPA-fr|mɔʁɛ̃|lang}}; 3 March 1931 in Shanghai, China – 12 March 2018)[1] was a French mathematician, specifically a topologist.

Early life and education

Morin lost his sight at the age of six due to glaucoma, but his blindness did not prevent him from having a successful career in mathematics.[2] He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.[3][2]

Career

Morin was a member of the group that first exhibited an eversion of the sphere, i.e. a homotopy (topological metamorphosis) which starts with a sphere and ends with the same sphere but turned inside-out. He also discovered the Morin surface, which is a half-way model for the sphere eversion, and used it to prove a lower bound on the number of steps needed to turn a sphere inside out.

He discovered the first parametrization of Boy's surface (earlier used as a half-way model) in 1978. His graduate student François Apéry later discovered (in 1986) another parametrization of Boy's surface, which conforms to the general method for parametrizing non-orientable surfaces.[4]

Morin worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Most of his career, though, he spent at the University of Strasbourg.


Morin's surface.

See also

  • Leonhard Euler
  • Nicholas Saunderson

References

1. ^{{Cite web |url=http://smf.emath.fr/content/d%25C3%25A9c%25C3%25A8s-de-bernard-morin |title=Décès de Bernard Morin |website=Société Mathématique de France |language=fr |access-date=2018-10-11}}
2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://smf.emath.fr/files/apery-morin.pdf |title=BERNARD MORIN (1931-2018) |last=Apéry |first=François}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Bernard Morin|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/bernard-morin|website=Institute for Advanced Study|accessdate=20 July 2017|language=en}}
4. ^Weisstein, Eric W. "Boy Surface." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BoySurface.html

References

  • George K. Francis & Bernard Morin (1980) "Arnold Shapiro’s Eversion of the Sphere", Mathematical Intelligencer 2(4):200–3.

External links

  • Photos of Morin with stereolithography models of sphere eversion.
  • The World of Blind Mathematicians, PDF file at the American Mathematical Society's website.
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