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Leo Zippin

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Leo Zippin (1905 – May 11, 1995) was an American mathematician. [1]

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Andrew M. Gleason

Andrew Mattei Gleason (19212008) was an American mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in teaching at all levels.

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Deane Montgomery

Deane Montgomery (September 2, 1909 – March 15, 1992) was a mathematician specializing in topology who was one of the contributors to the final resolution of Hilbert's fifth problem in the 1950s.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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Hilbert's fifth problem

Hilbert's fifth problem is the fifth mathematical problem from the problem list publicized in 1900 by mathematician David Hilbert, and concerns the characterization of Lie groups.

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John Robert Kline

John Robert Kline (1891–1955) was a US-American Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955.

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Nina Baym

Nina Baym (1936–2018) was an American literary critic and literary historian.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Queens College, City University of New York

Queens College (QC) is one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system.

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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Undergraduate education

Undergraduate education is the post-secondary education previous to the postgraduate education.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Zippin

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