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Samuel Eilenberg

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Samuel Eilenberg

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Polish mathematician (1913-1998)

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24

Top works

  • Notes on cohomology theory of groups
  • O zastosowaniach topologicznych odwzorowań na okra̧g koła
  • Solution of Equations and Systems of Equations : Pure and Applied Mathematics
  • Algebraic topology
  • Topology

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1848-01-13
Active to
1927-12-05

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Total plays
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Born
( 1913-09-30 ) September 30, 1913, Warsaw , Congress Poland , Russian Empire
Died
January 30, 1998 (1998-01-30) (aged 84), New York City , United States
Citizenship
Russian , Polish , American
Alma mater
University of Warsaw
Awards
Wolf Prize (1986) , Leroy P. Steele Prize (1987)
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Michigan Columbia University Indiana University
Thesis
On the Topological Applications of Maps onto a Circle (1936)
Doctoral advisors
Kazimierz Kuratowski , Karol Borsuk
Doctoral students
Jonathan Beck , David Buchsbaum , Martin Golumbic , Daniel Kan , William Lawvere , Ramaiyengar Sridharan , Myles Tierney

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date of birth
1913-09-30
date of death
1998-01-30
Commons category
Samuel Eilenberg
Erdős number
2
name in native language
Samuel Eilenberg
name
Sammy Eilenberg
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Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra.

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