Alexander Doniphan Wallace
Alexander Doniphan Wallace (born August 21, 1905 in Hampton (Virginia) , † October 16, 1985 in New Orleans ) was an American mathematician who dealt with topology (algebraic and general topology).
He is mostly quoted as AD Wallace.
Wallace studied at the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in 1935 and a master's degree in 1936 and received his doctorate there in 1939 with Gordon Whyburn (On the Interior and Related Transformations). In 1940/41 he was an instructor at Princeton University and assistant to Solomon Lefschetz . In 1941 he became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1947 he was head of the mathematics department at Tulane University . From 1963 he was a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he retired in 1973.
According to him, which is set by Wallace named. He also had a share in the Alexander-Spanier cohomology (which is also sometimes named after him and Andrei Kolmogorow ) with his further development (1947) of the Alexander Ko-chain complex . The idea was further developed by Edwin Spanier in his dissertation.
At Tulane University, he studied topological groups and semigroups.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Alexander Doniphan Wallace. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Doniphan Wallace in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wallace, Alexander Doniphan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampton (Virginia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1985 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |