Daniel Zelinsky
Daniel Zelinsky (born November 22, 1922 in Chicago - † September 16, 2015 ) was an American mathematician who studied algebra .
Zelinsky studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1941 and a master's degree in 1943, then was there instructor (and 1944/46 assistant in the group for applied mathematics at Columbia University ) and received his doctorate in 1946 with Abraham Adrian Albert in Chicago (Integral sets of quasiquaternion algebras). From 1947 to 1949 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1949 he became an assistant professor and later professor at Northwestern University . In 1993 he retired. From 1975 to 1978 he headed the mathematics faculty.
He was particularly concerned with rings and homological algebra.
He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , Section A of which he chaired from 1984 to 1987.
Andy Magid is one of his PhD students .
Fonts
- Publisher: Brauer groups: proceedings of the Conference held at Evanston, October 11–15, 1975, Springer 1976
literature
- Andy Magid (Ed.), Rings, extensions, and cohomology: proceedings of the Conference on the Occasion of the Retirement of Daniel Zelinsky, New York: Dekker 1994
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Daniel Zelinsky in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zelinsky, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th September 2015 |