Whitney, Hassler Eells, James (ed.); Toledo, Domingo (ed.) The collected papers of Hassler Whitney. Volume I and II. Edited by James Eells and Domingo Toledo. (English) Zbl 0746.01016 Contemporary Mathematicians. Boston, MA etc.: Birkhäuser. xiv, 590 p./vol. I; xiv, 596 p./vol. II (1992). “This collection contains all the published papers, with the exception of some short announcements that Whitney did not wish to be included. [The editors] also include the introduction to this book Geometric integration theory, and one previously unpublished manuscript on the four-color problem.”The papers are organized by subject matter into three chapters in the first volume and five in the second volume. Within each chapter the papers are arranged chronologically. Volume I: Chapter 1, Graphs and combinatorics (twelve items); Chapter 2, Differentiable functions and singularities (seventeen items); Chapter 3, Analytic spaces (four items). Volume II: Chapter 1, Manifolds (seven items); Chapter 2, Bundles and characteristic classes (four items); Chapter 3, Topology and algebraic topology (fifteen items); Chapter 4, Geometric integration theory (five items); Chapter 5, Other subjects (six items). “Whitney intended to write an introduction to this collection. Unfortunately he left us no manuscript at the time of his death... [The editors] had discussed [with him] the possibility of using his paper ‘Moscow 1935 — Topology moving toward America’, written for the Centennial of the American Mathematical Society, as part of his introduction to this collection... [They] therefore include this paper, which contains personal information as well as mathematical reflections, as Whitney’s own introduction to these volumes.” Apparently, the original paper included a photograph of twenty-four of the Moscow conference participants; regrettably, it is not reproduced in the present collection [cf. P. L. Duren et al. (ed.), A century of mathematics in America. Part 1 (Providence, RI 1988)]. Both volumes contain a complete set of contents, the preface, a listing of Whitney’s academic appointments and awards, and Whitney’s bibliography. With one exception (in French) all of the items are in English. (Quotations, above, are from the Preface.). Reviewer: F.J.Papp (Ypsilanti) Cited in 6 Documents MSC: 01A75 Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics Keywords:graphs; combinatorics; differentiable functions; singularities; analytic spaces; manifolds; bundles; characteristic classes; topology; algebraic topology; geometric integration theory Citations:Zbl 0656.00001 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H. Whitney} et al., The collected papers of Hassler Whitney. Volume I and II. Edited by James Eells and Domingo Toledo. Boston, MA etc.: Birkhäuser (1992; Zbl 0746.01016)