László Fox
László Fuchs (born June 24, 1924 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-American mathematician who studied algebra. He was a professor at Tulane University .
Fuchs studied at Lorand Eötvös University , where he received his doctorate in 1947 (quasi-primary ideals). He was then an assistant there and professor from 1954 to 1968. He was then a professor at Tulane University, where he was first a visiting professor in 1961 and head of the faculty from 1977 to 1979. In 2004 he retired.
He was visiting professor at the University of Miami (1966 to 1968), at the University of New South Wales (1965), in Montpellier (1968), at the University of Arizona (1972), in Padua (1977, 1981), at the University of Western Australia (1980), in Essen (1982) and at Bar-Ilan University (1984).
He is particularly concerned with commutative groups , module theory and ordered algebraic structures .
1963 to 1966 he was general secretary of the Hungarian Mathematical Society. He is a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and received the Kossuth Prize in 1953 . In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
He has been married since 1974 and has two children.
Fonts
- Abelian Groups, Pergamon Press 1960 (and Akad. Kiado 1958)
- Partially ordered algebraic systems, Pergamon Press 1963
- Infinite Abelian Groups, 2 volumes, Academic Press 1970, 1973
- Modules over Valuation Domains, University of Essen (lecture notes) 1983
- with Luigi Salce: Modules over Valuation Domains, Marcel Dekker 1985
- with Luigi Salce: Modules over non-Noetherian Domains, American Mathematical Society 2001
- Abelian p-groups and mixed groups, Montreal 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ László Fuchs in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fox, László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |