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Cohen, Frederick R.; Moore, John C.; Neisendorfer, Joseph A. (November 1979). "The double suspension and exponents of the homotopy groups of spheres".
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Cohen, Frederick R.; Moore, John C.; Neisendorfer, Joseph A. (January 1979). "Torsion in homotopy groups".
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Cohen did influential work in several areas of homotopy theory. His thesis concerned the topology of
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Bahri, Anthony; Bendersky, Martin; Cohen, Frederick R. (2019).
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Fred Cohen, in Kavli Institute (Santa Barbara) summer of 2012.
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Cohen was survived by his wife Kathleen and two daughters.
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Levi, Ran (7 April 2009). "The work of Fred Cohen".
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Frederick Cohen
Chicago
University of Chicago
configuration spaces
homotopy groups of spheres
polyhedral products
Sloan Research Fellow
AMS
Mathematics
University of Rochester
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
J. Peter May
https://web.archive.org/web/20220704144832/https://people.math.rochester.edu/faculty/cohf/
American
mathematician
algebraic topology

Chicago
Brandeis University
University of Chicago
University of Northern Illinois
University of Kentucky
University of Rochester
configuration spaces
braid groups
mapping class groups
homotopy groups of spheres
John Moore
Joseph Neisendorfer

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