Richard D. Schafer

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Richard Donald Schafer (born February 25, 1918 in Buffalo , New York , † December 28, 2014 in Lexington , Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician.

Richard Schafer studied at the University at Buffalo , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1938 and his master's degree in 1940. He received his doctorate in 1942 under Abraham Adrian Albert with the dissertation " Alternative Algebras over an Arbitrary Field " at the University of Chicago . In 1945/46 he was an instructor at the University of Michigan . In 1948 he went to the University of Pennsylvania as a professor, in 1953 he moved as professor and head of the mathematics faculty at the University of Connecticut and in 1959 to the mathematics faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he remained until his retirement in 1988. He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

From 1946 to 1948 and 1958/59 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

Richard Schafer worked in algebra, specifically Jordan algebras and Lie algebras . He is known for his textbook An Introduction to Nonassociative Algebras , first published in 1966 , which has been freely available in Project Gutenberg since 2008 .

Richard Schafer was married to the mathematician Alice Turner Schafer (1915–2009) since 1942 , with whom he had a daughter and two sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ http://math.mit.edu/about/history/obituaries/schafer.php
  3. ^ Richard D. Schafer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  4. ↑ Data on Richard Schafer at MIT
  5. ^ Richard D. Schafer: An Introduction to Nonassociative Algebras . Courier Dover Publications, 1966, ISBN 0-486-68813-5 .
  6. ↑ Alice Turner Schafer (MacTutor biography)
personal data
SURNAME Schafer, Richard D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schafer, Richard Donald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2014
Place of death Lexington, Massachusetts