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Nationality
  
United States

Role
  
Mathematician

Fields
  

Alma mater
  
Doctoral advisor
  
Name
  
Stephen Schanuel

Known for
  
Schanuel's conjectureSchanuel's lemma

Died
  
July 21, 2014, Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Books
  
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories


Institutions
  
University at Buffalo

Doctoral students
  
W. Dale Brownawell

Stephen H. Schanuel (1934—2014) was an American mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory.

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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 transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day. Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo.

References

Stephen Schanuel Wikipedia


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