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James Munkres

American mathematician

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born: 1930
died: 2026
age at death: 95
known for: mathematician, topologist, university teacher

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James Raymond Munkres was an American mathematician and academic who was professor of mathematics at MIT and is the author of several texts in the area of topology, including Topology, Analysis on Manifolds, Elements of Algebraic Topology, and Elementary Differential Topology. He is also the author of Elementary Linear Algebra.

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