Mathematician:Paul Moritz Cohn
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Mathematician
German-born mathematician renowned as an expert in abstract algebra, in particular non-commutative rings.
Nationality
German-born British
History
- Born: 8 Jan 1924, Hamburg, Germany
- 1939: Emigrated to Britain
- 1948: B.A. from Cambridge University
- 1951: Ph.D. from Cambridge University, supervised by Philip Hall
- 1951: Chargé de Recherches at the University of Nancy
- 1952: Lecturer in mathematics at Manchester University
- 1961-62: Visiting professor at Yale University
- 1962: At the University of California at Berkeley
- 1962: Reader at Queen Mary College
- 1964: Visiting professor at the University of Chicago
- 1967: Visiting professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
- 1967: Became head of the Department of Mathematics at Bedford College, London
- 1972: Awarded the Lester R Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America
- 1974: Awarded the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society
- 1984: Moved to University College London (UCL)
- 1986: Became Astor Professor of Mathematics at UCL
- 1986: Visiting professor to the University of Alberta
- 1987: Visiting professor to Bar Ilan University
- 1989: Retired, but remained active
- Died: 20 April 2006 in London, England
Publications
- 1957: Lie Groups
- 1958: Rings of zero-divisors (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 9, no. 6: pp. 909 – 914)
- 1958: Linear Equations
- 1961: Solid Geometry
- 1963: Noncommutative unique factorization domains (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 109, no. 2: pp. 313 – 331) www.jstor.org/stable/1993910
- 1963: Rings with a weak algorithm (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 109, no. 2: pp. 332 – 356) www.jstor.org/stable/1993911
- 1965: Universal Algebra (2nd edition: 1981)
- 1971: Free Rings and Their Relations (2nd edition: 1985)
- 1974: Algebra, Volume 1
- 1977: Algebra, Volume 2
- 1977: Skew Field Constructions
- 1990: Algebra Volume 3
- 1991: Algebraic Numbers and Algebraic Functions
- 1994: Elements of Linear Algebra
- 2000: From Hermite rings to Sylvester domains (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 128, no. 7: pp. 1899 – 1904) www.jstor.org/stable/119680
- 1995: Skew Fields
- 2000: Introduction to Ring Theory
- 2000: Classic Algebra
- 2003: Basic Algebra: Groups, Rings and Fields ($1$st volume of a new and revised edition of Algebra)
- 2003: Further Algebra and Applications
- 2006: Free Ideal Rings and Localization in General Rings