Marston Morse
American mathematician
Harold Calvin Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. Wikipedia
Born: March 24, 1892, Waterville, ME
Died: June 22, 1977 (age 85 years), Princeton, NJ
Children: Dryden Phelps Morse
Education: Harvard University (1914–1917), Colby College (1910–1914), and Coburn Classical Institute
Partner: Celeste Phelps (1922–), Louise Jefferys Morse, and Celeste Phelps
Awards: Bôcher Memorial Prize (1933) and National Medal of Science (1964)
Books
The calculus of variations in the large
1934
Lectures by Marston Morse on Analysis in the Large, 1936-1937
1937
Global Variational Analysis: Weierstrass Integrals on a Riemannian Manifold. (MN-16)
1976
Topological Methods in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable. (AM-15), Volume 15
1948
Topological Methods in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable
1947
Introduction to analysis in the large
1947