Christopher Zeeman

Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS (4 February 1925 – 13 February 2016), was a British mathematician. He was known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Zeeman's main contributions to mathematics were in topology, particularly in knot theory, the piecewise linear category, and dynamical systems.

Professor Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman
Erik Christopher Zeeman in 1980, courtesy MFO
Born	(1925-02-04)4 February 1925 Japan
Died	13 February 2016(2016-02-13) (aged 91) Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	Christ's College, Cambridge
Known for	Catastrophe theory Geometric topology Singularity theory
Awards	Senior Whitehead Prize (1982) Faraday Medal (1988) David Crighton Medal (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Warwick, England Oxford University, England Gresham College, England
Doctoral advisor	Shaun Wylie
Doctoral students	Mark Anthony Armstrong Peter Buneman David Epstein John F. P. Hudson Ray Lickorish Anthony Manning Tim Poston Colin Rourke Jaroslav Stark David Trotman Terry Wall and 18 others
Notes
Fellow of the Royal Society

Other websites

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Christopher Zeeman", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Interview in CIM Bulletin 2001 Archived 2004-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Three references for further reading Archived 2016-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Bibliography Archived 2021-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Zeeman's Catastrophe Machine
  • Zeeman's Catastrophe Machine in Flash Archived 2012-12-11 at Archive.today
  • AMS — The Catastrophe Machine
  • Doctor Zeeman's Original Catastrophe Machine
• "The Cusp of Catastrophe: René Thom, Christopher Zeeman and Denis Postle" in Maps of the Mind Charles Hampden-Turner. Collier Books, 1981. ISBN 978-0-85533-293-8
• Mathematics into Pictures Archived 2013-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, Christopher Zeeman's 1978 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures