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…homologicalalgebra
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...
Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg

male, deceased (1998)
Warsaw University alumni, American, X-machine, Polish-American, mathematician, Eilenberg telescope…homologicalalgebra
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...
Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck

male, 81 years old
Pacifist, From Berlin, Harvard University, Crafoord Prize, homologicalalgebra, Fields Medal
Alexander Grothendieck (born March 28, 1928 in Berlin, Germany) is one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. He is also one of...
Jean Leray

Jean Leray

male, deceased (1998)
mathematician, prisoner of war, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, Mathematical analyst, French, University of Paris…homologicalalgebra
Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. He was born in Nantes. He studied...

Daniel Kan

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, closed model category, Alridge K. Bousfield, Daniel Marinus Kan, adjoint functors, model categories…homologicalalgebra
Daniel Marinus Kan is a mathematician working in homotopy theory. He has been a prolific contributor to the field for the last five decades, having...
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, Category theory…homologicalalgebra
Gregory Maxwell (Max) Kelly, 1930-2007, founded the thriving Australian school of category theory. A native of Australia, Kelly obtained his Ph.D....
Melvin Hochster

Melvin Hochster

male
Harvard University, homologicalalgebra, Cohen-Macaulay ring, Cole Prize, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, invariant theory…homological conjectures, commutative algebra
Melvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack...
Adrien Douady

Adrien Douady

male, deceased (2006)
mathematician, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, French, Analytical Geometry, dynamical systems, Académie des sciences…homologicalalgebra
Adrien Douady was a French mathematician. He was a student of Henri Cartan, who initially worked in homological algebra. He subsequently made...
Jacques Herbrand

Jacques Herbrand

male, deceased (1931)
Logician, Isère, homologicalalgebra, Herbrand-Ribet theorem, class field theory, Euler characteristic
Jacques Herbrand was a French mathematician who was born in Paris, France and died in La Bérarde, Isère, France. He worked in mathematical logic an...

Floyd Williams

male, 70 years old
Washington University, Floyd Leroy Williams, homologicalalgebra, Washington University in St. Louis alumni, mathematical physics, emeritus
Floyd Leroy Williams (born September 201939) is a North American mathematician well-known for his work in Lie theory and, most recently,...