Stephen Schanuel
Stephen Schanuel | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 14, 1933 |
| Died | July 21, 2014 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Known for | Schanuel's conjecture Schanuel's lemma |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University at Buffalo |
| Doctoral advisor | Serge Lang |
| Doctoral students | W. Dale Brownawell Beifang Chen |
Stephen H. Schanuel (1934—2014) was an American mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory.
Life
While he was a graduate student at University of Chicago, he discovered Schanuel's lemma, an essential lemma in homological algebra. Schanuel received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1963, under the supervision of Serge Lang.
Work
Shortly thereafter he stated a conjecture in the field of transcendence theory which remains an important open problem to this day. Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo.
External links
- Stephen Schanuel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Schanuel's Conjecture". MathWorld.
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