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Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910 – December 5, 1999) was an American mathematician.[1]
Biography
Born Nachman Arbiser[2] in Warsaw, Jacobson emigrated to America with his family in 1918. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930 and was awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1934. While working on his thesis, Non-commutative polynomials and cyclic algebras, he was advised by Joseph Wedderburn.
Jacobson taught and researched at Bryn Mawr College (1935–1936), the University of Chicago (1936–1937), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1937–1943), and Johns Hopkins University (1943–1947) before joining Yale University in 1947. He remained at Yale until his retirement.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the American Mathematical Society from 1971 to 1973, and was awarded their highest honour, the Leroy P. Steele prize for lifetime achievement, in 1998.[3] He was also vice-president of the International Mathematical Union from 1972 to 1974.
Selected works
Books
- Collected Mathematical Papers, 3 vols., 1989
- The theory of Rings. 1943[4]
- Lectures in Abstract Algebra.[5][6][7] 3 vols., Van Nostrand 1951, 1953, 1964, Reprint by Springer 1975 (Vol.1 Basic concepts, Vol.2 Linear Algebra, Vol.3 Theory of fields and Galois theory)
- Structure of Rings. AMS 1956[8]
- Lie Algebras. Interscience 1962[9]
- Structure and Representations of Jordan Algebras. AMS 1968[10]
- Exceptional Lie Algebras. Dekker 1971
- Basic Algebra. Freeman, San Francisco 1974, Vol. 1; 1980, Vol. 2; Template:Cite book Template:Cite book
- PI-Algebras. An Introduction. Springer 1975
- Finite-dimensional division algebras over fields 1996
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See also
- Jacobson–Bourbaki theorem
- Jacobson's conjecture
- Jacobson density theorem
- Jacobson radical
- Jacobson ring
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- 1910 births
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1999 deaths
- Polish emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- American algebraists
- University of Alabama alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Bryn Mawr College faculty
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Yale University faculty
- Presidents of the American Mathematical Society