Hans Samelson
Hans Samelson (born March 3, 1916 in Strasbourg , † September 22, 2005 in Palo Alto ) was an American mathematician.
Samelson grew up in Breslau and began studying mathematics there, among others with Johann Radon . In 1936, as one of his parents was Jewish, he fled Nazi Germany to Switzerland. There he continued his studies and received his doctorate in 1940 under Heinz Hopf at the ETH Zurich (contributions to the topology of group manifolds). In 1941 he went to the Institute for Advanced Study and then stayed in the USA. From 1942 he was at the University of Wyoming , from 1943 at Syracuse University and from 1946 at the University of Michigan . In 1960 he became a professor at Stanford University , where he headed the mathematics faculty from 1979 to 1982. In 1986 he retired.
Samelson dealt with topology, Lie groups (which he wrote a textbook about) and differential geometry.
In 1977 he received the Distinguished Service Award from Stanford University for his teaching.
He was married twice and had two sons.
His youngest brother Franz Samelson (1923-2015) followed him after completing his psychology studies in Munich in 1952 to Ann Arbor , where her mother also lived. After receiving his doctorate, he left Michigan in 1957 and moved to Kansas State University in Manhattan , where he taught psychology for more than 30 years . His younger brother Klaus Samelson (1918–1980), also a mathematician and computer science pioneer, stayed in Germany.
Fonts
- Notes on Lie Algebras, New York, Van Nostrand 1969 (PDF; 2.5 MB), 2nd edition Springer 1990 (university text)
- An introduction to linear algebra, Wiley 1974
- with R. Bott : Applications of the theory of Morse to symmetric spaces. Amer. J. Math. 80: 964-1029 (1958). (Homology of the loop space of compact Lie groups)
- with D. Montgomery: Transformation groups of spheres. Ann. of Math. (2) 44: 454-470 (1943).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samelson, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 2005 |
| Place of death | Palo Alto |