Timothy O'Meara

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Onorato Timothy O'Meara (born January 29, 1928 in Cape Town - † June 17, 2018 ) was an American mathematician who studied number theory and algebra .

O'Meara studied at the University of Cape Town and received his doctorate from Princeton University with Emil Artin in 1953 ( Quadratic forms over local fields ). In 1957/58 and 1961 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He taught at Princeton, at the University of Otago and from 1962 at the University of Notre Dame . He was twice chairman of the faculty and from 1976 Kenna Professor of Mathematics. From 1978 to 1996 he was provost of the university.

He dealt with algebraic number theory, linear groups and the number theory of quadratic forms, about which he wrote a standard work. This also includes its integer classification of quadratic shapes over local bodies . In the 1960s and 1970s, he dealt with isomorphisms between classical groups over bodies and later over integrity rings .

The University of Notre Dame's math library is named after him.

From 1960 to 1963 he was a Sloan Fellow . In 1978 he was Carl Friedrich Gauß Professor in Göttingen . In 1991 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Alexander J. Hahn is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

  • Introduction to quadratic forms , Springer Verlag, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 117, 1963, 3rd edition 1973, reprint in the Classics of Mathematics series
  • Lectures on linear groups , American Mathematical Society 1974
  • Symplectic groups , American Mathematical Society 1978
  • with Alexander J. Hahn The classical groups and K-Theory , Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 291, Springer Verlag 1989
  • The integral representation of quadratic forms over local fields , American J. Math., Vol. 80, 1958, pp. 843-878

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dennis Brown: In memoriam: Timothy O'Meara, provost emeritus. University of Notre Dame, June 17, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME O'Meara, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Meara, Onorato Timothy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 2018