Jan-Erik Roos

Jan-Erik Ingvar Roos (16 October 1935 – 15 December 2017)^[1] was a Swedish mathematician whose research interests were in abelian category theory, homological algebra, and related areas.

He was born in

Upon his return to Sweden, Roos was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Stockholm University in 1970, and started building a strong algebra school.^[2] He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1980 and was its President from 1980 to 1982.^[6] While serving on the Academy, he was on the committees deciding the Rolf Schock Prizes in Mathematics^[7] and the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Mathematics.^[8]

Roos made important contributions to homological algebra, and did extensive computer-assisted studies of Hilbert–Poincaré series and their rationality.^[9] A special issue of the journal Homology, Homotopy and Applications ("The Roos Festschrift volume") was published in 2002, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.^[10]

He died on 15 December 2017 at his home in

Publications

• Roos, Jan-Erik (1961). "Sur les foncteurs dérivés de ${\displaystyle \varprojlim }$. Applications".
  MR 0132091
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• Roos, Jan-Erik (1993). "Commutative non-Koszul algebras having a linear resolution of arbitrarily high order. Applications to torsion in loop space homology".
  MR 1221635
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• Löfwall, Clas; Roos, Jan-Erik (1997). "A Nonnilpotent 1-2-Presented Graded Hopf Algebra Whose Hilbert Series Converges in the Unit Circle".
  MR 1472316
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• Roos, Jan-Erik;
  MR 1646972
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• Roos, Jan-Erik (2006). "Derived functors of inverse limits revisited".
  S2CID 122666355
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• Roos, Jan-Erik (2008). "The homotopy Lie algebra of a complex hyperplane arrangement is not necessarily finitely presented".
  S2CID 7626968
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• Roos, Jan-Erik (2010). "Three-dimensional manifolds, skew-Gorenstein rings and their cohomology".
  MR 2753719
  .

References

1. ^ Persson, Ulf (15 February 2018). "Jan-Erik Roos 16/10/1935 – 15/12/2017" (PDF). Bulletinen (in Swedish): 3–6. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
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   MR 3837430
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3. ^ ^{a b c} Almkvistl, Gert (15 February 2018). "My friend Jan-Erik Roos" (PDF). Bulletinen (in Swedish): 10–13. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
4. ^ Jan-Erik Roos at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. ^ Laudal, Olav Arnfinn (15 February 2018). "Jan Erik Roos in Paris" (PDF). Bulletinen (in Swedish): 6–10. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
6. ^ Roos, Jan-Erik (June 2012). "Torsten Ekedahl" (PDF). European Mathematical Society Newsletter. 84: 16–18. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
7. ^ "Rolf Schock – uniting philosophy, mathematics, music and art". news.cision.com. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
8. ^ "The Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy 2008". crafoordprize.se. 17 January 2008. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
9. Zbl 1003.01010
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10. MR1918521

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