Myles Tierney

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Myles Tierney (born September 1937 , † October 6, 2017 in New Jersey ) was an American mathematician who studied algebraic topology and category theory .

Tierney received his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1959 and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1965 with Samuel Eilenberg (On the classifying spaces for K-theory mod p). In 1965/66 he was at Rice University and from 1966 to 1968 at ETH Zurich . He was from 1968 (then as Associate Professor) until his retirement in 2003 professor at Rutgers University .

At the end of the 1960s he founded the theory of the elementary topos with William Lawvere . He published with André Joyal , among others .

Fonts

  • Categorical constructions in stable homotopy theory. A seminar given at the ETH, Zurich, in 1967, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 87, 1969
  • with André Joyal: An extension of the Galois theory of Grothendieck, American Mathematical Society 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Myles Tierney in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Tierney, Myles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 1937
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2017
Place of death New Jersey