Ralph McKenzie
Ralph Nelson Whitfield McKenzie (born October 20, 1941 in Cisco (Texas) ) is an American mathematician who studied logic, algebra and combinatorics.
McKenzie studied (Bachelor 1963) and received his doctorate in 1966 with James Donald Monk at the University of Colorado at Boulder ( The representations of relational algebras ). He was instructor from 1966, assistant professor from 1967, associate professor from 1971 and professor from 1978 at the University of California, Berkeley , where he has been professor emeritus since 1994. He has been a Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University since 1994 . In 1971/2 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and was also a visiting professor in Boulder (Ulam Professor 1990), Siena, Melbourne, Hawaii and visiting scholar at ETH Zurich .
McKenzie dealt among other things with universal algebra .
In 2003 he held the Tarski Lectures (Algebras, Lattices, and Arithmetic Classes: From Boole to Tarski, and Beyond, including: What is general algebra ?, on universal algebra). In 1989 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar. From 1973 to 1975 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .
With Steven Givant he edited the collected works of Alfred Tarski .
Fonts
- with David Hobby: The structure of finite algebras , AMS 1988
- with Ralph Freese: Commutator Theory for Congruence Modular Varieties , London Math. Society Lecturenotes, Cambridge University Press 1987, online here
- Algebras, lattices, varieties , Monterey, California: Wadsworth & Brooks / Cole Advanced Books & Software, 1987
- Alfred Tarski and Steven R Givant: Collected papers: volume 2 1935-1944 , Basel / Boston / Stuttgart: Birkhäuser, 1986
Web links
- Homepage at Vanderbilt University
- Homepage in Berkeley
- Literature by and about Ralph McKenzie in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph McKenzie in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKenzie, Ralph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKenzie, Ralph Nelson Whitfield; McKenzie, Ralph N. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cisco, Texas |