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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Mathematics

Name
  
Ellis Kolchin


Alma mater
  
Columbia University

Institutions
  
Columbia University

Doctoral advisor
  
Joseph Ritt

Born
  
April 18, 1916 New York City, USA (
1916-04-18
)

Doctoral students
  
Azriel Rosenfeld Irving Adler

Known for
  
Lie–Kolchin theorem Kolchin topology

Died
  
October 30, 1991, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Education
  
Columbia University (1942)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Differential Algebra & Algebraic, Differential Algebraic Groups, Selected works of Ellis Kolc

Ellis Robert Kolchin (April 18, 1916 – October 30, 1991) was an American mathematician at Columbia University. Kolchin earned a doctorate in mathematics from Columbia University in 1941 under supervision of Joseph Ritt. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 and 1961.

Kolchin worked on differential algebra and its relation to differential equations, and founded the modern theory of linear algebraic groups. His doctoral students include Azriel Rosenfeld and Irving Adler.

Publications

  • Kolchin, E. R. (1985), Differential algebraic groups, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 114, Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-417640-9, MR 776230 
  • Kolchin, E. R. (1973), Differential algebra and algebraic groups, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 54, Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-417650-8, MR 0568864 
  • Kolchin, Ellis (1999), Selected works of Ellis Kolchin with commentary, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0542-8, MR 1677530 
  • References

    Ellis Kolchin Wikipedia