Mathematician:Saunders Mac Lane

Mathematician
American mathematician who cofounded category theory with.

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 )
 * Category Theory (with )

Publications

 * 1941: A Survey of Modern Algebra (with )
 * 1963: Homology
 * 1965: A Brief Survey of Modern Algebra (with ) (second revised edition of A Survey of Modern Algebra from 1941)
 * 1967: (with )
 * 1971:
 * 1986: Mathematics, Form and Function
 * 1992: Sheaves in Geometry and Logic: A First Introduction to Topos Theory (with )
 * 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 )
 * 2005: Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography

Also known as
Saunders Mac Lane was born Leslie Saunders MacLane.