Marvin Jay Greenberg
Marvin Jay Greenberg (born December 22, 1935 in New York City , † December 12, 2017 in Berkeley ) was an American mathematician .
Greenberg graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1955 (he was an undergraduate Ford Scholar) and received his PhD from Princeton University with Serge Lang in 1959 ( Pro-Algebraic Structure on the Rational Subgroup of a P-Adic Abelian Variety ). From 1955 he was an assistant in Princeton, 1958 assistant at the University of Chicago and 1958/59 instructor at Rutgers University . From 1959 to 1964 he was Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley , where he was 1961 and 1964/65 as a Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation at Harvard University and 1961/62 in Paris and at IHES , where he was at the seminar of Alexander Grothendieck took part. From 1965 to 1967 he was Associate Professor at Northeastern University and from 1967 Associate Professor and later Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz . He retired early in 1992 and lived in Berkeley.
He dealt with algebraic geometry (there Jean-Pierre Serre named a functor discovered by Greenberg after him and Julien Sebag and Johannes Nicaise an approximation theorem in arithmetic algebraic geometry (1965)), algebraic number theory, algebraic topology, non-Euclidean and Euclidean geometry and mathematical Logic (Ax and Boil theorem).
He was known for textbooks on non-Euclidean geometry and algebraic topology .
He translated the textbook Corps Locaux by Jean-Pierre Serre on local bodies into English ( Local Fields ).
He was a passionate golfer and founding member of the Shivas Irons Golf Society.
Fonts
- Lectures on Algebraic Topology, Benjamin 1967
- Expanded with John R. Harper: Algebraic topology: a first course . Benjamin / Cummings, Reading (Massachusetts) 1981, ISBN 0-8053-3558-7 .
- Lectures on Forms in many variables, Benjamin 1969
- Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History, Freeman 1974, 4th edition 2007
- Old and New Results in the Foundations of Elementary Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries, American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 117, March 2010, pp. 189–219 (received the Lester Randolph Ford Award in 2011 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to Pamela Kalte et al., American men and women of science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Tony Tromba: In Memoriam: Marvin Greenberg (1935-2017). University of California, Santa Cruz, December 14, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Marvin Jay Greenberg in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ About the Ax-Cooking Theorem by James Ax , Simon Cooking
- ^ MAA, Lester Randolph Ford Award for Greenberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greenberg, Marvin Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2017 |
| Place of death | Berkeley |