Mathematician:Nathan Jacobson

Polish-American mathematician mainly working in abstract algebra.

Student of Joseph Wedderburn.

Known as Jake to his friends and colleagues.

Nationality
American, of Polish Jewish descent

History

 * Born: 5 October (actual), 8 Sept (official) 1910 in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
 * 1918: Emigrated to USA
 * 1930: Graduated from the University of Alabama
 * 1934: Awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University
 * 1935-36: Taught and researched at Bryn Mawr College (taking over the position of Emmy Noether, who had just died)
 * 1936-37: Taught and researched at the University of Chicago
 * 1937-43: Taught and researched at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * 25th August 1942: Married Florie Dorfman
 * 1943-47: Taught and researched at Johns Hopkins University
 * 1947: Taught and researched at Yale University
 * 1971-73: President of the American Mathematical Society
 * 1972-74: Vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
 * 1998: Awarded the Leroy P. Steele prize for lifetime achievement
 * Died: 5 Dec 1999 in Hamden, Connecticut, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Jacobson Radical
 * Jacobson Ring
 * Jacobson Density Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1934: Non-commutative polynomials and cyclic algebras
 * 1943: The theory of rings
 * 1949: Classification and representation of semi-simple Jordan algebras (with Florie Dorfman)
 * 1951:
 * 1953:
 * 1956: Structure of rings
 * 1962: Lie algebras
 * 1964:
 * 1968: Structure and representations of Jordan algebras
 * 1971: Exceptional Lie algebras
 * 1975: PI-algebras : an introduction