Richard Swan
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This article is about the American mathematician. For the Scottish cricketer, see Richard Swan (cricketer). For the 15th-century English member of parliament, see Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency).
Richard Gordon Swan (/swɑːn/; born 1933) is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre–Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules,[1] and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group.[2] His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory.