Flashcards: Algebraists

Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ма́ркович Остро́вский; 25 September 1893, in Kiev, Russian Empire – 20 November 1986, in Montagnola, Lugano, Switzerland) was a mathematician.

Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer (10 November 1896 – 7 April 1934) was a German Jewish mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven.

Daniel Hershkowitz (Hebrew: דניאל הרשקוביץ; born 2 January 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli politician, mathematician and rabbi.

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Dutch: [vɑn dər ˈʋaːrdə(n)]; February 2, 1903 – January 12, 1996) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics.

Abū Kāmil, Shujāʿ ibn Aslam ibn Muḥammad Ibn Shujāʿ (Latinized as Auoquamel, Arabic: ابو كامل‎‎, also known as al-ḥāsib al-miṣrī—lit. "the Egyptian reckoner") (c. 850 – c. 930) was an Egyptian Muslim mathematician during the Islamic Golden Age.

Taro Morishima (森嶋 太郎 Morishima Tarō, 1903 – 1989) was a Japanese mathematician specializing in algebra who attended University of Tokyo in Japan.

Ruth Moufang (January 10, 1905 – November 26, 1977) was a German mathematician.

Moshe Meiselman is an American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Jerusalem, which he established in 1982.

Hilary Priestley is a mathematician.

Joachim Lambek (5 December 1922 – 23 June 2014) was Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University, where he earned his Ph.

Popa earned his Ph.

David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947 in New York City) is an American mathematician.

Abraham Adrian Albert (November 9, 1905 – June 6, 1972) was an American mathematician.

Bjarni Jónsson (February 15, 1920 – September 30, 2016) was an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory.

Skip Garibaldi is an American mathematician doing research on algebraic groups and especially exceptional groups.

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Trivandrum Ramakrishnan "T.

Alessandro Padoa (14 October 1868 – 25 November 1937) was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano.

Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra.

Daniel Segal (born 1947) is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Ladislav Svante Rieger (1916–1963) was a Czech mathematician who worked in the areas of algebra, mathematical logic, and axiomatic set theory.

(For the Welsh rugby player, see Norman Biggs.) Norman Linstead Biggs (born 2 January 1941) is a leading British mathematician focusing on discrete mathematics and in particular algebraic combinatorics.

Howard Levi (November 9, 1916, New York City – September 11, 2002, New York City) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in algebra and mathematical education.

Idun Reiten (born 1 January 1942) is a Norwegian professor of mathematics.

Marshall Hall, Jr.

Jessie Marie Jacobs Muller Offermann (1890–1954) was an American mathematician who also made contributions to the field of genetics.

Paul Monsky (born June 17, 1936) is an American mathematician and professor at Brandeis University.

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Merkurjev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Сергее́вич Мерку́рьев, born September 25, 1955) is a Russian-born American mathematician, who has made major contributions to the field of algebra.

Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan; Hebrew: שמשון אברהם עמיצור‎‎; August 26, 1921 – September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician.

Kiiti Morita (森田 紀一 Morita Kiichi, February 11, 1915 – August 4, 1995) was a Japanese mathematician working in algebra and topology.

András P Huhn (Szeged, 26 January 1947 – Szeged, 6 June 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician.

Uwe Storch (born 12 July 1940, Leopoldshall) is a German mathematician.

William Allen "Bill" Casselman (born November 27, 1941) is an American Canadian mathematician who works in group theory.

László Rédei (Rákoskeresztúr, 15 November 1900—Budapest, 21 November 1980) was a Hungarian mathematician.

Michael David Fried is an American mathematician working in the geometry and arithmetic of families of nonsingular projective curve covers.

Cyrus Colton MacDuffee (June 29, 1895 – August 21, 1961) from Oneida, New York was a professor of mathematics at University of Wisconsin.

Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich (Russian: Фридрих Израилевич Карпелевич; 2 October 1927 – 5 July 2000) was a Russian mathematician known for his work on semisimple Lie algebras, geometry, and probability theory.

Steven Joel Takiff is an American mathematician who introduced what became Takiff algebras in 1971.

George Benham Seligman, (born 30 April 1927, Attica, New York) is an American mathematician, who works on Lie algebras, especially semi-simple Lie algebras.

Karin Erdmann (born 1948) is a German mathematician specializing in the areas of algebra known as representation theory (especially modular representation theory) and homological algebra (especially Hochschild cohomology).

Zinovy Reichstein (born 1961) is a Russian-born American mathematician.

Israel Nathan Herstein (March 28, 1923 – February 9, 1988) was a mathematician, appointed as professor at the University of Chicago in 1951.

Philip Hall FRS (11 April 1904 – 30 December 1982), was an English mathematician.

George Birch Jerrard (1804 – 23 November 1863) was a British mathematician.

Patrick Michael Grundy (16 November 1917, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight – 4 November 1959) was an English mathematician and statistician.

Vincenzo Mollame (Naples, 4 July 1848 – Catania, 23 June 1912) was an Italian mathematician.

Ernst Witt (June 26, 1911 – July 3, 1991) was a German mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time.

Mitrofan Cioban (born 5 January 1942) is a Moldovan mathematician, a member of the Academy of Science of Moldova (2000).

Nicolae Popescu, Ph.

Roger Wolcott Richardson (30 May 1930 – 15 June 1993) was a mathematician noted for his work in representation theory and geometry.

Rosemary A. Bailey (born 1947) is a British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance and in related areas of combinatorial design, especially in association schemes.

Otto Franz Georg Schilling (3 November 1911 – 20 June 1973) was a German-American mathematician known as one of the leading algebraists of his time.

Friedrich Karl Schmidt (22 September 1901 – 25 January 1977) was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory.

Leonard Eugene Dickson (January 22, 1874 – January 17, 1954) was an American mathematician.

Zeng Jiongzhi (Chinese: 曾炯之; pinyin: Zēng Jiǒngzhī; Wade–Giles: Tseng Chiung-chih, April 2, 1898 – November 1940), also rendered as Chiungtze C.

Peter Jephson Cameron (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works ingroup theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory.

Erland Samuel Bring (19 August 1736 – 20 May 1798) was a Swedish mathematician.

Barbara L. Osofsky is a retired professor of mathematics at Rutgers University.

Ellen Elizabeth Kirkman is professor of mathematics at Wake Forest University.

Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (7 July 1905 – 19 October 1972) was a French mathematician, the second woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics in France, and an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra.

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882, Forfar, Angus, Scotland – 9 October 1948, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career.

László Fuchs (born June 24, 1924 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American mathematician, the Evelyn and John G.

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Artemas Martin (1835–1918) was a self-educated American mathematician.

Charles Royal Johnson is an American mathematician specializing in linear algebra.

Hyman Bass (born October 5, 1932) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education.

Eben Matlis (born 1923) was a mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of rings and modules, especially for his work with injective modules over commutative Noetherian rings, and his introduction of Matlis duality.

Tibor Szele (Debrecen, 21 June 1918 – Szeged, 5 April 1955) Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra.