Mathematician:Roger Conant Lyndon
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Mathematician
American mathematician known for his work in group theory.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: December 18, 1917 in Calais, Maine
- Died: June 8, 1988, in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Theorems and Definitions
- Lyndon Word
- Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre Spectral Sequence (with Gerhard Paul Hochschild and Jean-Pierre Serre)
- Craig-Lyndon Interpolation Theorem (with William Craig)
- Curtis-Hedlund-Lyndon Theorem (with Morton Landers Curtis and Gustav Arnold Hedlund)
Results named for Roger Conant Lyndon can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Roger Conant Lyndon can be found here.
Publications
- 1950: Cohomology theory of groups with a single defining relation (Ann. Math. Vol. 52, no. 3: pp. 650 – 665) www.jstor.org/stable/1969440
- 1967: Notes on Logic (Van Nostrand, 1967)
- 1985: Groups and Geometry