Mathematician:Saunders Mac Lane

Saunders Mac Lane (born Leslie Saunders MacLane) was an 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

 * Eilenberg-Mac Lane Space (with Samuel Eilenberg)
 * Category Theory (with Samuel Eilenberg)

Books and Papers

 * 1941: A Survey of Modern Algebra (with Garrett Birkhoff)
 * 1963: Homology
 * 1965: A Brief Survey of Modern Algebra (with Garrett Birkhoff) (second revised edition of A Survey of Modern Algebra from 1941)
 * 1967: (with Garrett Birkhoff)
 * 1971:
 * 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
 * 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