Memorial for Henry J. Kelley
β Scribed by Professor Eugene M. Cliff
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0143-2087
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
a day after celebrating his 62nd birthday. The scientific community has lost a most remarkable and brilliant man.
Dr. Kelley began his university education at New York University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1948, a Master of Science in mathematics in 1951, and a Doctor of Science in aeronautical engineering in 1958. His teachers included R. Courant, J. Moser and J. J. Stoker, all of whom profoundly affected Kelley's scientific views.
Kelley began his professional career at Grumman Aircraft in 1948. Initially, he worked on aircraft dynamics and control problems. Later, he was attracted to guidance and optimal flight problems; they were to be the grist for his intellectual inill throughout his career.
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The property of Kelley for confluent retractable continua is studied. It is shown that a confluent retractable continuum has the property of Kelley if and only if each of its proper subcontinua has the property. An example is constructed of a confluent retractable continuum without the property of K