Mathematician:Saunders Mac Lane
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Mathematician
American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
Introduced the diagrammatic approach to mathematics, in particular pioneering the use of commutative diagrams.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 4 August 1909, Taftville, Connecticut
- 1930: BA from Yale University
- 1931: MA from University of Chicago
- 1931 - 33: attended University of Göttingen
- 1934: awarded Ph.D. by Göttingen's Mathematisches Institut
- Died: 14 April 2005, San Francisco
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1941: A Survey of Modern Algebra (with Garrett Birkhoff)
- 1948: Groups, Categories and Duality (Proceedings of the Nat. Acad. of Sciences of the USA Vol. 34: pp. 263 – 267)
- 1945: Relations between homology and homotopy groups of spaces (Annals of Mathematics Vol. 46: pp. 480 – 509) (with Samuel Eilenberg)
- 1950: Relations between homology and homotopy groups of spaces. II (Annals of Mathematics Vol. 51: pp. 514 – 533) (with Samuel Eilenberg)
- 1963: Homology
- 1965: A Brief Survey of Modern Algebra (with Garrett Birkhoff) (second revised edition of A Survey of Modern Algebra from $1941$)
- 1967: Algebra (with Garrett Birkhoff)
- 1971: Categories for the Working Mathematician
- 1986: Mathematics, Form and Function
- 1992: Sheaves in Geometry and Logic: A First Introduction to Topos Theory (with Ieke Moerdijk)
- 2005: Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography
Also known as
Saunders Mac Lane was born Leslie Saunders MacLane.