Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910, Warsaw , Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire - December 5, 1999, Hamden , Connecticut ) - American mathematician , author of fundamental works on ring theory [1] .
| Nathan Jacobson | |
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 Nathan Jacobson in 1974 | |
| Date of Birth | October 5, 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Russian Empire (now Poland ) |
| Date of death | December 5, 1999 (89 years old) |
| Place of death | Hamden Connecticut |
| A country |  Russian Empire ,  USA |
| Scientific field | maths |
| Place of work | Chapel Hill University of North Carolina , Johns Hopkins University , Princeton University , |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (Ph.D. 1934) |
| supervisor | Joseph Wedderburn |
| Famous students | Charles Curtis , George Seligman |
| Known as | Author of model textbooks, Radical Jacobson , Jacobson-Bourbaki Theorem , Jacobson hypothesis , Jacobson's density theorem , Jacobson's Ring |
| Awards and prizes | Leroy P. Steel Prize (1998) |
Recognized as one of the leading algebraists of his generation; He gained fame as the author of more than a dozen textbooks that have become actual educational standards in general algebra .
Biography
Born under the name Nachman Arbuser in Warsaw. Father - Gershon Yakov Arbuser ( Gershon Yakov Arbuser ), mother - Pese (later Paulina) Aidel Rosenberg ( Pesse Aidel Rosenberg ). My father emigrated to the United States in 1913, and upon entering the United States on Ellis Island, he changed his name to Charles Jacobson. He became a grocer in Nashville , Tennessee, and by 1917 had accumulated enough funds to call his family in the United States - his wife and two sons. However, the family name of his family on Ellis Island at the entrance to the United States was recorded with an error as Arbisar [2] .
He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1934, defending a dissertation on non -commutative polynomials and cyclic algebras under the supervision of Joseph Wedderburn .
He taught and studied mathematics at Brin More 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 entering Yale University in 1947. At Yale, he worked until his retirement.
Scientific communities and awards
Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He served as president of the American Mathematical Society (AMO) from 1971 to 1973, and in 1998 was awarded their highest AMO Steele Award for scientific achievements throughout life [3] .
He was also vice president of the International Mathematical Union from 1972 to 1974.
Scientific Papers
- Collected Mathematical Papers, 3 vols., 1989
- Basic Algebra. Freeman, San Francisco 1974
- Lectures in Abstract Algebra. [4] [5] [6] 3 vols., Van Nostrand 1951, 1953, 1964, Reprint by Springer 1975 (Vol.1 Basic concepts, Vol.2 Linear Algebra, Vol.3 Theory of fields and Galois theory)
- Structure of rings AMS 1956
- The theory of Rings. 1943 [7]
- Lie Algebras. Interscience 1962 [8]
- Exceptional Lie Algebras. Dekker 1971
- Structure and Representation of Jordan Algebras. AMS 1968
- PI-Algebras. An Introduction. Springer 1975
See also
- Jacobson-Bourbaki Theorem
- Jacobson hypothesis
- Jacobson's density theorem
- Jacobson radical
- Jacobson's Ring
Notes
- ↑ Nathan Jacobson (1910-1999) (English) // Notices of the AMS : journal. - 1999. - Vol. 47 . - P. 1061-1071 .
- ↑ Nathan Jacobson . American National Biography Online. Date of treatment January 12, 2014.
- ↑ 1998 Steele Prizes (Eng.) // Notices of the AMS : journal. - 1998. - Vol. 48 . - P. 504-508 .
- ↑ Mills, WH Review: N. Jacobson, Lectures in abstract algebra . Vol. I. Basic concepts (English) // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1952. - Vol. 58 , no. 5 . - P. 579-580 .
- ↑ Dieudonné, J. Review: N. Jacobson, Lectures in abstract algebra . Vol. II. Linear algebra (English) // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1953. - Vol. 59 , no. 5 . - P. 480—483 .
- ↑ Herstein, IN Book Review: Nathan Jacobson, Lectures in abstract algebra , Vol. III, Theory of fields and Galois theory (English) // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1967. - Vol. 73 , no. 1 . - P. 44–46 .
- ↑ Baer, Reinhold. Review: Nathan Jacobson, The theory of rings // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1946. - Vol. 52 , no. 3 . - P. 220—222 .
- ↑ Hochschild, G. Review: Nathan Jacobson, Lie algebras (Eng.) // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1963. - Vol. 69 , no. 1 . - P. 37-39 .
Links
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Jacobson, Nathan (English) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- An interview with William L. Duren, Nathan Jacobson, and Edward J. McShane about their experiences at Princeton