Douglas Northcott

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Douglas Geoffrey Northcott , (born December 31, 1916 in London , † April 8, 2005 ) was a British mathematician who dealt with commutative algebra.

Northcott studied with Godfrey Harold Hardy at St. John's College, Cambridge University . His studies were interrupted during World War II by his military service, which he spent in Japanese captivity after the fall of Singapore. From 1946 to 1948 he was at Princeton University , where he turned to the analysis of algebra under the influence of Emil Artin . From 1948 he was a research fellow at Cambridge and from 1952 professor at the University of Sheffield (Town Trust Chair of Pure Mathematics), where he stayed until his retirement in 1982.

In commutative algebra he is known, among other things, for a work with David Rees in 1954.

In 1953 he received the Junior Berwick Prize . In 1968/69 he was Vice President of the London Mathematical Society . In 1961 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Fonts

  • Multilinear algebra , Cambridge University Press 1984. ISBN 0-521-26269-0
  • A first course of homological algebra. Cambridge University Press, 1973, 1980. ISBN 0-521-29976-4
  • Affine sets and affine groups. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Vol. 39. Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-521-22909-X
  • Finite free resolutions. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, No. 71. Cambridge University Press, 1976, 2004.
  • Lessons on rings, modules and multiplicities. Cambridge University Press, London 1968
  • An introduction to homological algebra. Cambridge University Press, 1960
  • Ideal theory. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, No. 42. Cambridge University Press, 1953.

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References

  1. ^ DG Northcott, D. Rees, Reductions of ideals in local rings, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., Vol. 50, 1954, pp. 145-158
personal data
SURNAME Northcott, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Northcott, Douglas Geoffrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2005