Philip Hirschhorn
Professor of Mathematics
An algebraic topologist who works on homotopy theory in model categories, localizations of model category structures, and homotopy limit and colimit functors.
Professor Hirschhorn is an algebraic topologist who works on homotopy theory in model categories, localizations of model category structures, and homotopy limit and colimit functors.
Education
- B.S., Brooklyn College of City University of New York
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current and upcoming courses
Calculus IIA
MATH120
This course is a variant of MATH 116 for students who have a thorough knowledge of the techniques of differentiation and integration, and familiarity with inverse trigonometric functions and the logarithmic and exponential functions. It includes a rigorous and careful treatment of limits, sequences and series, Taylor's theorem, approximations and numerical methods, Riemann sums, improper integrals, l'Hôpital's rule, and applications of integration.