Saunders Mac Lane
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Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909 – 14 April 2005) was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
American mathematician (1909–2005)
Saunders Mac Lane | |
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| Born | (1909-08-04)4 August 1909 Taftville, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | 14 April 2005(2005-04-14) (aged 95)[1] San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University University of Chicago University of Göttingen |
| 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 |
| Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1941)[2][3] Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986) National Medal of Science (1989) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics (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 | Steve Awodey David Eisenbud William Howard Irving Kaplansky Roger Lyndon Michael D. Morley Anil Nerode Robert Solovay John G. Thompson |
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