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Tsit Yuen Lam

American mathematician

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Born: 1942-02-06
Works: 2

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A First Course in Noncommutative Rings
Lectures on Modules and Rings

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5 total works indexed

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies
· 2014 · cited 23,828x
Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,599x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,405x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,380x

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2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

· 2021 · cited 11,606x

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Born: 6 February 1942

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: mathematician
Educated at: Columbia University
Employer: University of Chicago
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Leroy P. Steele Prize
Academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor: Hyman Bass
Field of work: algebra
Official website: math.berkeley.edu/~lam
Image: Tsit Yuen Lam.jpg

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What links here146 pages

Graduate Texts in Mathematics

nilradical of a ring

Wedderburn's little theorem

euclidean field

Hurwitz's theorem

Clifford algebra

Gorenstein ring

Hilbert's seventeenth problem

noncommutative ring

Köthe conjecture

Graduate Studies in Mathematics

endomorphism ring

division algebra

noetherian ring

finitely generated module