Heegaard
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| Born | Copenhagen |
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| Denmark | |
| Died | Oslo |
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| Date of died | February 7,1948 |
| Education | Copenhagen University |
| Parents | Sophus Heegaard |
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| ID | 5028992 |
Heegaard Life story
Poul Heegaard was a Danish mathematician active in the field of topology. His 1898 thesis introduced a concept now called the Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold. Heegaard's ideas allowed him to make a careful critique of work of Henri Poincaré.