Gilbert Baumslag
Gilbert Baumslag (April 30, 1933
Baumslag graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa with a B.Sc. Honours (Masters) and D.Sc.[3] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1958; his thesis, written under the direction of Bernhard Neumann, was titled Some aspects of groups with unique roots.[4] His contributions include the Baumslag–Solitar groups and parafree groups.
Baumslag was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1968–69.[5] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
Works
- Gilbert Baumslag, Groups with the same lower central sequence as a relatively free group. I. The groups, MR0217157
- Gilbert Baumslag, Groups with the same lower central sequence as a relatively free group. II. Properties, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 142 (1969), 507–538. MR0245653
- Gilbert Baumslag and Donald Solitar, Some two-generator one-relator non-Hopfian groups, MR0142635
Notes
- ^ "Death Notices for AMS Members" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 62 (3): 281. March 2015.
- ^ Gilbert Baumslag, obituary, The New York Times, October 22, 2014. Accessed October 22, 2014
- ^ Bios & Profiles - Faculty - CUNY Archived 2011-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gilbert Baumslag at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived January 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
External links
- Gilbert Baumslag, at CCNY
- Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, at CCNY
- New York Group Theory Seminar, at The CUNY Graduate Center
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