Morris Hirsch

Morris Hirsch
Born	(1933-06-28) June 28, 1933 (age 90) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisors	Edwin Spanier Stephen Smale
Doctoral students	William Goldman William Thurston Mary Lou Zeeman

Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American mathematician, formerly at the University of California, Berkeley.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958, under supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale.^[1] His thesis was entitled Immersions of Manifolds. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

Hirsch had 23 doctoral students, including William Thurston, William Goldman, and Mary Lou Zeeman.