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American mathematician
Maxwell Rosenlicht
Born(1924-04-15)April 15, 1924
Brooklyn
DiedJanuary 22, 1999(1999-01-22) (aged 74)
Hawaii
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
AwardsCole Prize (1960)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Northwestern University
Doctoral advisorOscar Zariski
Doctoral studentsMichael F. Singer
Robert Henry Risch

Maxwell Alexander Rosenlicht (April 15, 1924 – January 22, 1999) was an American mathematician known for works in algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, and differential algebra.

Rosenlicht attended high school in Brooklyn (Erasmus High School) and studied at Columbia University (B.A. 1947) and at Harvard University, where he worked under Zariski. He was a Putnam fellow twice, in 1946 and 1947. He was awarded his doctorate on algebraic curve equivalence concepts in 1950. In 1952, he moved to Northwestern University. From 1958 until his retirement in 1991, he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor in Mexico City, IHÉS, Rome, Leiden, and at Harvard University.

In 1960, he shared the Cole Prize in algebra with Serge Lang for his work on generalized Jacobian varieties. He also studied the algorithmic algebraic theory of integration.

Rosenlicht was a Fulbright Fellow and 1954 Guggenheim Fellow.

He died of neurological disease on a trip to Hawaii. Rosenlicht married in 1954 and had four children.

Publications

References

  • The article was initially created as a translation (by Google) of the corresponding article in German Misplaced Pages.
  1. "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  2. Rosenlicht, Maxwell (1954). "Generalized Jacobian varieties". Annals of Mathematics. 59 (3): 505–530. doi:10.2307/1969715. JSTOR 1969715.
  3. Rosenlicht, Maxwell (1957). "A universal mapping property of generalized Jacobians". Annals of Mathematics. 66 (1): 80–88. doi:10.2307/1970118. JSTOR 1970118.

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