Mathematician:Irving Kaplansky

Canadian mathematician who made major contributions to group theory, ring theory, the theory of operator algebras and field theory. Father of folk musician and clinical psychiatrist Lucy Kaplansky.

Nationality
Canadian

History

 * Born: 22 March 1917 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 * Died: 25 June 2006 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kaplansky Conjecture
 * Kaplansky Density Theorem
 * Kaplansky's Theorem on Quadratic Forms

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1957: An introduction to differential algebra
 * 1970: Commutative Rings
 * 1971: Lie algebras and locally compact groups
 * 1972: Set Theory and Metric Spaces