History of Morse theory. How can I get good references which give many information about history of Morse theory? Now I am interested in how and who found that Hessian have a lot of data. Thank you for your helping!!

You may want to try these references:


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*R. Bott, "Marston Morse and his mathematical works", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (1980) 907–950.

*Dieudonné's A history of algebraic and differential topology.

*Morse theory in Tu's The life and works of Raoul Bott [pdf]. Also in Notice of AMS.
