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American mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen H. Schanuel (14 July 1933 – 21 July 2014) was an American mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory.[1][2]
Stephen Schanuel | |
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Born | |
Died | 21 July 2014 81) | (aged
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Known for | Schanuel's conjecture Schanuel's lemma |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University at Buffalo |
Doctoral advisor | Serge Lang |
Doctoral students | W. Dale Brownawell |
While he was a graduate student at University of Chicago, he discovered Schanuel's lemma, an essential lemma in homological algebra.[2] Schanuel received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1963, under the supervision of Serge Lang.[2]
Shortly thereafter he stated a conjecture in the field of transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day.[2] Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo.[1]
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