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Samuel Eilenberg, also known as Sammy Eilenberg, was a mathematician, topologist, university teacher and art collector born on 30 September 1913 in Warsaw and died on 30 January 1998 in New York City. He held citizenship of Poland and the United States, was educated at the University of Warsaw, and studied under Kazimierz Kuratowski and Karol Borsuk. He worked in topology, mathematics, collecting and visual arts.
Eilenberg was employed by the University of Michigan, Columbia University, Princeton University and Indiana University. He is known for the Eilenberg–MacLane space and the Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms, and received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is recognised in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1913-09-30 ) September 30, 1913, Warsaw , Congress Poland , Russian Empire
- Died
- January 30, 1998 (1998-01-30) (aged 84), New York City , United States
- Citizenship
- Russian , Polish , American
- Alma mater
- University of Warsaw
- Awards
- Wolf Prize (1986) , Leroy P. Steele Prize (1987)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Michigan Columbia University Indiana University
- Thesis
- On the Topological Applications of Maps onto a Circle (1936)
- Doctoral advisors
- Kazimierz Kuratowski , Karol Borsuk
- Doctoral students
- Jonathan Beck , David Buchsbaum , Martin Golumbic , Daniel Kan , William Lawvere , Ramaiyengar Sridharan , Myles Tierney
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- art collector
- Educated at
- University of Warsaw
- Employer
- Indiana University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Eilenberg–MacLane space
- Doctoral advisor
- Karol Borsuk
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Image
- Samuel Eilenberg MFO.jpeg
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- date of birth
- 1913-09-30
- date of death
- 1998-01-30
- Commons category
- Samuel Eilenberg
- Erdős number
- 2
- member of
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Samuel Eilenberg
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- name
- Sammy Eilenberg
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Samuel Eilenberg, född 30 september 1913, död 30 januari 1988, var en polsk-amerikansk matematiker. Eilenberg fick doktorsexamen från Universitetet i Warszawa 1936, där hans främsta intresse hade varit algebraisk topologi. Han träffade även Stefan Banach vid Lvivs universitet. 1939 emigrerade Eilenberg, som var av judisk härkomst till USA, och började 1940 som lärare vid University of Michigan, där han arbetade med den axiomatiska behandlingen av homologiteori med . 1945–46 var han gästföreläsare vid Princeton University och 1946 blev han professor vid . 1947 flyttade han till Columbia University. Redan 1940 hade Eilenerg träffat Saunders Mac Lane, och de hade arbetade ihop inom homologisk algebra, då de i processen skapade kategoriteorin. Eilenberg deltog i Bourbakigruppens möten och skrev ihop med Henri Cartan boken Homological Algebra 1956. Han forskade även inom automatteori, där han introducerade . 1986 fick Eilenberg Wolfpriset i matematik och 1987 Steelepriset.
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