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Saunders Mac Lane | |
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| Born | Leslie Saunders MacLane August 4, 1909 Taftville, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | April 14, 2005 (aged 95)[3] San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) University of Chicago (MA) University of Göttingen (PhD) |
| Known for | Acyclic model Category theory Shuffle algebra Standard complex Mac Lane coherence theorem Mac Lane set theory Mac Lane's condition Mac Lane's planarity criterion Eilenberg–MacLane space Steinitz–Mac Lane exchange lemma |
| Spouse | Dorothy Jones (m. 1934) |
| Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1941)[1][2] Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986) National Medal of Science (1989) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical logic Algebraic number theory Algebraic topology |
| Institutions | Harvard University Cornell University University of Chicago Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Weyl Paul Bernays |
| Doctoral students | |
Saunders Mac Lane (August 4, 1909 – April 14, 2005), born Leslie Saunders MacLane, was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
- ^ Mac Lane, Saunders (1940). "Modular Fields". Amer. Math. Monthly. 47 (5): 67–84. doi:10.2307/2302685. JSTOR 2302685.
- ^ Mac Lane, Saunders (1939). "Some Recent Advances in Algebra". Amer. Math. Monthly. 46 (1): 3–19. doi:10.2307/2302916. JSTOR 2302916.
- ^ Pearce, Jeremy (April 21, 2005). "Saunders Mac Lane, 95, Pioneer of Algebra's Category Theory, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2020.