Mathematician:John Rolfe Isbell

Mathematician

American mathematician best known for his work in topology and category theory.

Also published under the pseudonyms John Rainwater, M.G. Stanley and H.C. Enos.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: October 27, 1930, Portland, Oregon
• Died: August 6, 2005

Theorems and Definitions

• Isbell Duality

Publications

• 1964: Six theorems about injective metric spaces
• August 1980: Median algebra