Irvin Cohen

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Irvin Sol Cohen ( 1917 - February 14, 1955 ) was an American mathematician .

Cohen received his doctorate in 1942 under Oscar Zariski at Johns Hopkins University ( The Structure and Ideal Theory of Local Rings ). From 1948 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he became a professor.

Cohen was mainly concerned with commutative algebra . Cohen-Macaulay rings (originating from his dissertation) are named after him and Francis Macaulay , as are the sentences by Cohen-Seidenberg that go back to him and Abraham Seidenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ published in Cohen On the structure and ideal theory of complete local rings , Transactions AMS, Volume 59, 1946, pp. 54-106
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Irvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Irvin Sol (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1955