Mathematician:Saunders Mac Lane

Mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane (born Leslie Saunders MacLane) was an 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