Eben Matlis

Eben Matlis (August 28, 1923 - March 27, 2015) was a mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of rings and modules, especially for his work with injective modules over commutative Noetherian rings, and his introduction of Matlis duality.^[1]

Matlis earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1958,^[2] with Irving Kaplansky as advisor. He is an emeritus professor at Northwestern University^[3] and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from August 1962 to June 1963.^[2]

Selected works

• Matlis, Eben (1958), "Injective modules over Noetherian rings", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 8 (3): 511–528, doi:10.2140/pjm.1958.8.511, ISSN 0030-8730, MR 0099360
• Matlis, Eben (1972), Torsion-free modules, University of Chicago Press, MR 0344237
• Matlis, Eben (1973), 1-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay rings, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 327, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, MR 0357391

References

1. "Eben Matlis". Findagrave. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
2. "Eben Matlis". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019.
3. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).

External links

• Eben Matlis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project