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Nathan Jacobson, 1974
Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire — December 5, 1999, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American mathematician.[1]
Born in Warsaw, Jacobson emigrated to America with his Jewish family in 1918. Recognized as one of the leading algebraists of his generation, he was also famous for writing more than a dozen standard textbooks. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930 and was awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1934. While working on his thesis, Non-commutative polynomials and cyclic algebras, he was advised by Joseph Wedderburn.
Jacobson taught and researched at Bryn Mawr College (1935–1936), the University of Chicago (1936–1937), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1937–1943), and Johns Hopkins University (1943–1947) before joining Yale University in 1947. He remained at Yale until his retirement.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the American Mathematical Society from 1971 to 1973, and was awarded their highest honour, the Leroy P. Steele prize for lifetime achievement, in 1998.[2] He was also vice-president of the International Mathematical Union from 1972 to 1974.
See also
References
- ^ "Nathan Jacobson (1910-1999)". Notices of the AMS 47: 1061–71. 1999. http://www.ams.org/notices/200009/mem-jacobson.pdf.
- ^ "1998 Steele Prizes". Notices of the AMS 48: 504–8. 1998. http://www.ams.org/notices/199804/comm-steele-prizes.pdf.
External links
- Nathan Jacobson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Nathan Jacobson", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jacobson.html.
- An interview with William L. Duren, Nathan Jacobson, and Edward J. McShane about their experiences at Princeton
Categories:- 1910 births
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1999 deaths
- American people of Polish-Jewish descent
- American mathematicians
- 20th-century mathematicians
- Algebraists
- University of Alabama alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Bryn Mawr College faculty
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Yale University faculty
- People from Warsaw
- Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
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