Stephen Schanuel
| Stephen Schanuel | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 14, 1933 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died | July 21, 2014 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University at Buffalo |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Serge Lang |
| Doctoral students | W. Dale Brownawell Beifang Chen |
| Known for | Schanuel's conjecture Schanuel's lemma |
Stephen H. Schanuel (1934—2014) was an American mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory.[1][2]
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Life
While he was a graduate student at University of Chicago, he discovered Schanuel's lemma, an essential lemma in homological algebra.[2] Schanuel received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1963, under the supervision of Serge Lang.[2]
Work
Shortly thereafter he stated a conjecture in the field of transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day.[2] Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo.[1]
References
External links
- Stephen Schanuel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Schanuel's Conjecture", MathWorld.
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