Guy Hirsch

Guy Hirsch (20 September 1915 – 4 August 1993)[1] was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics, who worked on algebraic topology and epistemology of mathematics.

Guy Hirsch
Born(1915-09-20)20 September 1915
Died4 August 1993(1993-08-04) (aged 77)
Alma materUniversité libre de Bruxelles
Known foralgebraic topology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversité libre de Bruxelles
Doctoral advisorAlfred Errera

He became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 1973.

He is known for the Leray–Hirsch theorem, a basic result on the algebraic topology of fiber bundles that he proved independently of Jean Leray in the late 1940s.

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