Denis Higgs
Denis Arthur Higgs (born May 6, 1932 in England , † February 25, 2011 in Toronto ) was a British mathematician.
Higgs studied at the University of Witwatersrand and Cambridge University . He was a teacher in Lusaka (then in Northern Rhodesia ). Higgs participated in the political movement against the apartheid regime in South Africa . He left Africa after being temporarily abducted and released in Johannesburg , suspected of being responsible for South Africa. He turned to London in 1964 and to Canada in 1966 .
Higgs received his doctorate from McMaster University under Gert Sabidussi in 1970 (Matroids on complete Boolean algebras ) and was a professor at the University of Waterloo . He had been there since 1966 and retired in 1997.
His work deals with questions in combinatorics ( incidence geometries and their maps), category theory ( topos theory ) and universal algebra . The Higgs prime number is named after him.
Fonts (selection)
- A category approach to boolean valued set theory . Lecture Notes, University of Waterloo 1973
- with John E. Blackburn, Henry Crapo, Denis A. Higgs: A Catalog of Combinatorial Geometries . In: Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 27 (1973), No. 121, pp. 155-166, online
Web links
- Obituary at the University of Waterloo , December 15, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Lebensdaten Notices AMS, Volume 58, No. 5, 2011, p. 731
- ↑ Kidnapped teacher goes back to Rhodesia , Sydney Morning Herald, September 3, 1964
- ↑ Denis Higgs in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Higgs, Denis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Higgs, Denis Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2011 |
| Place of death | Toronto |