Nationality United States Role Mathematician Fields Mathematics | Alma mater Columbia University Doctoral advisor Serge Lang Name Stephen Schanuel | |
Known for Schanuel's conjecture
Schanuel's lemma Died July 21, 2014, Jacksonville, Florida, United States Books Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories Education Columbia University, University of Chicago | ||
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.
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