Edwin Evariste Moise
Born	(1918-12-22)December 22, 1918 New Orleans,Louisiana
Died	December 18, 1998(1998-12-18) (aged 79) New York,New York
Alma mater	University of Texas
Known for	3-manifolds SMSG Moise's theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Michigan Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Queens College
Doctoral advisor	Robert Lee Moore
Doctoral students	James Munkres Peter Shalen

Edwin Evariste Moise (/moʊˈiːz/;^[1] December 22, 1918 – December 18, 1998)^[1][2]was an American mathematician and mathematics education reformer. After his retirement from mathematics he became aliterary critic of 19th-centuryEnglish poetry and had several notes published in that field.^[1][3]

Edwin E. Moise was born December 22, 1918, inNew Orleans,Louisiana.^[2][4]He graduated fromTulane University in 1940.^[1] He worked as acryptanalyst and Japanese translator for theOffice of the Chief of Naval Operations duringWorld War II.^[1][5]

He received hisPh.D. degree in mathematics from theUniversity of Texas in 1947.^[1] His dissertation was titled "An indecomposable continuum which is homeomorphic to each of its nondegenerate subcontinua," a topic incontinuum theory, and was written under the direction ofRobert Lee Moore. In his dissertation Moise coined the termpseudo-arc.^[5][6]

Moise taught at theUniversity of Michigan from 1947 to 1960. He was James B. Conant Professor of education and mathematics atHarvard University from 1960 to 1971. He held a Distinguished Professorship atQueens College, City University of New York from 1971 to 1987.^[1][5]

Moise started working on the topology of3-manifolds while at theUniversity of Michigan. During 1949–1951 he held an appointment at theInstitute for Advanced Study during which he provedMoise's theorem that every 3-manifold can betriangulated in an essentially unique way.^[5]

Moise joined theSchool Mathematics Study Group when it started in 1958, as a member of the geometry writing team. The team produced several course outlines and sample pages for a 10th gradegeometry course, and then Moise and Floyd L. Downs wrote a geometry textbook, based on the team's approach, that was published in 1964. The textbook used metric postulates instead ofEuclid's postulates, a controversial approach supported by some mathematicians such asSaunders Mac Lane but opposed by others such as Alexander Wittenberg andMorris Kline.^[5]

Moise was a president of theMathematical Association of America, a vice-president of theAmerican Mathematical Society, a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was on the executive committee of theInternational Commission on Mathematical Instruction.^[1][5]

Moise retired from Queens College in 1987 and started a second career studying 19th centuryEnglish poetry.^[1] He had six short notes ofliterary criticism published.^[3]

In the middle and late 1960s, Moise was among the few members of the senior faculty at Harvard University who strongly and publicly opposed theVietnam War.

Moise died inNew York City on December 18, 1998, aged 79.^[1][2]

• Moise's theorem – Any topological 3-manifold has unique PL and smooth structures

• Moise, Edwin E. (1990) [1963].Elementary Geometry from an Advanced Standpoint (3rd ed.). Boston: Addison-Wesley.ISBN 978-0-201-50867-3.
• Moise, Edwin E.; Floyd L. Downs (1991) [1964].Geometry. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-201-25335-1.
• Moise, Edwin E. (1966).The Number Systems of Elementary Mathematics; Counting, Measurement, and Coordinates. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.OCLC 359171.
• Moise, Edwin E. (1972) [1967].Calculus (2nd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.OCLC 363809.
• Moise, Edwin E. (1977).Geometric Topology in Dimensions 2 and 3. New York: New York : Springer-Verlag.ISBN 978-0-387-90220-3.
• Moise, Edwin E. (1982).Introductory Problem Courses in Analysis and Topology. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.ISBN 978-0-387-90701-7.

• Edwin E. Moise at theMathematics Genealogy Project
• MAA presidents: Edwin Evariste Moise

• 1918 births
• 1998 deaths
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• American geometers
• Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty
• Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
• Mathematicians from Louisiana
• Presidents of the Mathematical Association of America
• Queens College, City University of New York faculty
• American topologists
• Tulane University alumni
• University of Michigan faculty
• University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni

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