Mathematician:Samuel Eilenberg

Polish-born American mathematician whose main field of activity were homology theory and category theory.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: 30 September 1913 in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)


 * 30 January 1998 in New York, USA

Theorems and Inventions

 * Eilenberg-Steenrod Axioms (with Norman Earl Steenrod)
 * Eilenberg-MacLane Space (with Saunders Mac Lane)
 * Category Theory (with Saunders Mac Lane)
 * Eilenberg-Ganea Theorem (with Tudor Ganea)
 * Eilenberg-Ganea Conjecture (with Tudor Ganea)

Books and Papers

 * 1952: Foundations of algebraic topology (with Norman Earl Steenrod)
 * 1952: Foundations of algebraic topology (with Norman Earl Steenrod)
 * 1952: Foundations of algebraic topology (with Norman Earl Steenrod)
 * 1952: Foundations of algebraic topology (with Norman Earl Steenrod)
 * 1952: Foundations of algebraic topology (with Norman Earl Steenrod)