Mathematician:Roger Conant Lyndon

Mathematician

American mathematician known for his work in group theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: December 18, 1917 in Calais, Maine
• Died: June 8, 1988, in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Theorems and Definitions

• Lyndon Word
• Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre Spectral Sequence (with Gerhard Paul Hochschild and Jean-Pierre Serre)

• Craig-Lyndon Interpolation Theorem (with William Craig)
• Curtis-Hedlund-Lyndon Theorem (with Morton Landers Curtis and Gustav Arnold Hedlund)

Results named for Roger Conant Lyndon can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Roger Conant Lyndon can be found here.

Publications

• 1950: Cohomology theory of groups with a single defining relation (Ann. Math. Vol. 52, no. 3: pp. 650 – 665)  www.jstor.org/stable/1969440
• 1967: Notes on Logic (Van Nostrand, 1967)
• 1985: Groups and Geometry

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Roger Conant Lyndon": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive