nLab George Whitehead

• Wikipedia entry

Not to be confused with J. H. C. Whitehead, who also worked in algebraic topology.

Selected writings

Introducing the J-homomorphism:

• George Whitehead, On the homotopy groups of spheres and rotation groups, Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 43 4 (1942) 634-640 [jstor:1968956]

On Whitehead products:

• George W. Whitehead: On Products in Homotopy Groups, Annals of Mathematics 47 3 (1946) 460-475 [doi:10.2307/1969085, jstor:1969085]

Computing the second stable homotopy group of spheres:

• George Whitehead: The $(n+2)$nd Homotopy Group of the $n$-Sphere, Annals of Mathematics Second Series 52 2 (1950) 245–247 [jstor:1969466]

On homotopy theory:

• George Whitehead: Elements of homotopy theory, Springer (1978) [doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-6318-0]

Related entries

• Spanier-Whitehead category

• Spanier-Whitehead duality

• stable homotopy category

• generalized (Eilenberg-Steenrod) cohomology

• Whitehead principle

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