Gilbert Baumslag
Template:Short description Gilbert Baumslag (April 30, 1933[1] – October 20, 2014[2]) was a Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York, with joint appointments in mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering. He was director of the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, which grew out of the MAGNUS computational group theory project he also headed. Baumslag was also the organizer of the New York Group Theory Seminar.
Baumslag graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa with a B.Sc. Honours (Masters) and D.Sc.[3] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1958; his thesis, written under the direction of Bernhard Neumann, was titled Some aspects of groups with unique roots.[4] His contributions include the Baumslag–Solitar groups and parafree groups.
Baumslag was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1968–69.[5] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
Works
- Gilbert Baumslag, Groups with the same lower central sequence as a relatively free group. I. The groups, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 129 (1967), 308–321. MRTemplate:Catalog lookup link
- Gilbert Baumslag, Groups with the same lower central sequence as a relatively free group. II. Properties, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 142 (1969), 507–538. MRTemplate:Catalog lookup link
- Gilbert Baumslag and Donald Solitar, Some two-generator one-relator non-Hopfian groups, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 68 (1962), 199–201. MRTemplate:Catalog lookup link
Notes
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- ↑ Gilbert Baumslag, obituary, The New York Times, October 22, 2014. Accessed October 22, 2014
- ↑ Bios & Profiles - Faculty - CUNY Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the Mathematics Genealogy ProjectTemplate:EditAtWikidata
- ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Template:Webarchive
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
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External links
- Gilbert Baumslag, at CCNY
- Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software Template:Webarchive, at CCNY
- New York Group Theory Seminar, at The CUNY Graduate Center
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- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Group theorists
- City College of New York faculty
- 1933 births
- 2014 deaths
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- University of the Witwatersrand alumni
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society