About Wolfgang Haken
Wolfgang Haken was a German American mathematician who specialized in topology, in particular 3-manifolds. Wolfgang is the cousin of Hermann Haken, a physicist known for laser theory and synergetics. Haken's eldest daughter, Dorothea Blostein, is a professor of computer science, known for her discovery of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences. Haken’s youngest son, Rudolf, is a professor of music, who established the world's first Electric Strings university degree program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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