Saunders Mac Lane

Saunders Mac Lane

male, deceased (2005)
mathematician, Cornell University faculty, Yale University alumni, Harvard University faculty, University of Chicago alumni, University of Chicago faculty…Categorytheory, Category theorist
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.

William Lawvere

male
Columbia University, Ph.D., Category theorist, Continuum Mechanics, topos, background and genesis of topos theory…Categorytheory, topos theory
Francis William Lawvere is a mathematician known for his work in category theory, topos theory and the philosophy of mathematics. Lawvere completed...

Martin Hyland

male
mathematician, J. Martin E. Hyland, King's College, Cambridge, mathematical logic, King's College, English…Categorytheory, Category theorist
J. Martin E. Hyland is professor of mathematics at King's College in the University of Cambridge, England. His interests include mathematical...
Dana Scott

Dana Scott

male, 77 years old
Turing Award laureate, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2…Categorytheory, automata theory
Dana Stewart Scott (born 1932) is the emeritus "Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic" at Carnegie...
Max Kelly

Max Kelly

male, deceased (2007)
University of Illinois, Gregory Maxwell (Max) Kelly, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Sydney University, University of New South Wales, Categorytheory…CATEGORY, Category theorist, Basic Concepts of Enriched Category Theory, Single-space axioms for homology theory, enriched category
Gregory Maxwell (Max) Kelly, 1930-2007, founded the thriving Australian school of category theory. A native of Australia, Kelly obtained his Ph.D....
Joseph Goguen

Joseph Goguen

male, deceased (2006)
Joseph Amadee Goguen, tibetan buddhism, naropa institute, Functional programming, computer scientist, mathematics…Categorytheory
Joseph Amadee Goguen was a computer science professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San...
Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg

male, deceased (1998)
Warsaw University alumni, American, X-machine, Polish-American, mathematician, Eilenberg telescope…automata theory, Categorytheory, homology theory, Category theorist
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York, USA where he had spent much...
Robert Rosen

Robert Rosen

male, deceased (1998)
complexity, modelling relationship, Categorytheory, Biologist, systems theory researcher, dalhousie university
Robert Rosen (June 27, 1934, Brooklyn, New York - December 28, 1998, Rochester, New York) was an American theoretical biologist and, later in life,...
John C. Baez

John C. Baez

male, 48 years old
Mathematics Genealogy Project, Weierstrass, MIT, Riesz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics…Category theorist, Categorytheory
John Carlos Baez (b. 1961) is an American mathematical physicist at the University of California, Riverside. He is well known in the field for his...
Henri Cartan

Henri Cartan

male, 105 years old
French Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centenarian, Erdős number 3, United States National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences…sheaf theory, Categorytheory
Henri Cartan is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. Cartan studied at the L...