Robert Steinberg

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Robert Steinberg (born May 25, 1922 in Soroki ( Bessarabia ), today Soroca, Moldova ; † May 25, 2014 ) was an American mathematician who a. a. engaged in group theory.

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Steinberg received his doctorate from Richard Brauer at the University of Toronto in 1948 ("Representations of the fractional linear groups"). He was a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles , where he retired in 1992. In 1955/56, 1961/62 and 1969 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

Steinberg discovered a class of finite, simple groups of the Lie type that was left out in the treatment of Claude Chevalley , the Steinberg groups named after him. Also known under the name Steinberg group is his construction of the universal extension of the general linear group . This was later used by Milnor in the algebraic K-theory for an explicit construction of . Certain representations of finite groups over finite fields of characteristic p are called Steinberg representations or Steinberg modules (Steinberg 1957).

In 1985 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and in 1990 the Jeffery Williams Prize . He had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1985 . He was invited speaker at the 1966 International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow (Classes of elements of semisimple algebraic groups).

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  • Collected Papers, AMS 1997

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Individual evidence

  1. Robert Steinberg, mathematician who inspired many, passes away at 92 . In: Daily Bruin, UCLA, June 2, 2014 (accessed June 3, 2014).