Mathematician:Norman Earl Steenrod

Mathematician

American mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: April 22, 1910 in Dayton, Ohio
• Died: 14 October 1971 in Princeton, New Jersey

Theorems and Definitions

• Steenrod Algebra
• Steenrod Homology
• Steenrod Operations
• Steenrod Problem

• Eilenberg-Steenrod Axioms (with Samuel Eilenberg)
• Myers-Steenrod Theorem (with Sumner Byron Myers)

Definitions of concepts named for Norman Earl Steenrod can be found here.

Axioms named for Norman Earl Steenrod can be found here.

Publications

• 1939: The group of isometries of a Riemannian manifold (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 40, no. 2: pp. 400 – 416) (with S.B. Myers)  www.jstor.org/stable/1968928
• 1943: Homology with local coefficients (Ann. Math. Vol. 44, no. 4: pp. 610 – 627)
• 1945: Axiomatic approach to homology theory (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A Vol. 31, no. 4: pp. 117 – 120) (with Samuel Eilenberg)
• 1947: Products of cocycles and extensions of mappings (Ann. Math. Vol. 48, no. 2: pp. 290 – 320)
• 1952: Foundations of algebraic topology (with Samuel Eilenberg)
• 1962: Cohomology Operations (Ann. Math. Studies Vol. 50)
• 1966: First Concepts of Topology (with W.G. Chinn)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Norman Earl Steenrod": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive