Stephen Schanuel
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Stephen Schanuel | |
---|---|
Born | |
Died | 21 July 2014 | (aged 81)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Known for | Schanuel's conjecture Schanuel's lemma |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University at Buffalo |
Doctoral advisor | Serge Lang |
Doctoral students | W. Dale Brownawell |
Stephen H. Schanuel (14 July 1933 – 21 July 2014) was an American mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory.[1][2]
Life
While he was a graduate student at University of Chicago, he discovered Schanuel's lemma, an essential lemma in homological algebra.[2] Schanuel received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1963, under the supervision of Serge Lang.[2]
Work
Shortly thereafter he stated a conjecture in the field of transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day.[2] Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo.[1]
Books
- Lawvere, F. William; Schanuel, Stephen Hoel (2009) [1997]. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89485-2.
References
- ^ a b "Recent alumni deaths". Princeton Alumni Weekly. April 22, 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Steve Schanuel has passed away". University at Buffalo, Mathematics Department. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with CANTICN identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with MATHSN identifiers
- Articles with MGP identifiers
- Articles with ZBMATH identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1933 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- University at Buffalo faculty
- People from St. Louis
- Mathematicians from Missouri
- Algebraists