Tsit Yuen Lam

Tsit Yuen Lam (2015)

Tsit Yuen Lam , also Tsit-Yuen Lam, (born February 6, 1942 ), is a Chinese-American mathematician who studies algebra .

Lam studied at the University of Hong Kong (Bachelor 1963) and at Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1967 with Hyman Bass ( On Grothendieck Groups ). He was then an instructor at the University of Chicago and made a career from 1968 at the University of Berkeley , where he became an assistant professor in 1969, an associate professor in 1972 and a professor in 1976. He was there several times vice-director of the mathematics faculty. From 1995 to 1997 he was Deputy Director of the MSRI in Berkeley.

Lam dealt among other things with ring theory and square shapes.

From 1972 to 1974 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1981/82 Guggenheim Fellow . In 1982 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his textbooks. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Richard Elman is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

• The algebraic theory of quadratic forms (= Mathematics Lecture Note Series. (54)). Benjamin, Reading MA 1973, ISBN 0-8053-5664-9 .
• Serre's Conjecture (= Lecture Notes in Mathematics . 635). Springer, Berlin et al. 1978, ISBN 3-540-08657-9 .
• Orders, Valuations and Quadratic Forms. (Expository Lectures from the CBMS Regional Conference held at Carleton University August 10-14, 1981) (= Regional Conference Series in Mathematics. 52). American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 1983, ISBN 0-8218-0702-1 .
• Exercises in classical ring theory. Springer, New York NY et al. 1985, ISBN 3-540-94317-X .
• A First course in noncommutative rings (= Graduate Texts in Mathematics . 131). Springer, New York NY et al. 1991, ISBN 0-387-97523-3 .
• Representations of Finite Groups: A Hundred Years. Part I (PDF file; 472 kB). In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . Volume 45, No. 3, 1998, pp. 361-372; Part II (PDF files; 231 kB): Volume 45, No. 4, 1998, pp. 465–474.
• Lectures on Modules and Rings (= Graduate Texts in Mathematics. 189). Springer, New York NY et al. 1999, ISBN 0-387-98428-3 .
• Serre's problem on projective modules. Springer, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-540-23317-2 .

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