Michael P. Drazin
Michael Drazin | |
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Born | June 5, 1929 |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Drazin inverse |
Awards | Smith's Prize (1952) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Purdue University |
Thesis | Contributions to Abstract Algebra (1953) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Rankin and David Rees |
Michael Peter Drazin (born 1929) is an American mathematician of British background, working in
Background
The Drazins (Дразин) were a
Isaac Drazin married Leah Wexler, and had three sons, of whom Michael was the eldest, and Philip Drazin, also a mathematician, was the youngest, the middle son being David; and died 1 January 1993.[2][3]
Life
Michael Drazin was born in London on 5 June 1929.[4] His younger brother Philip was educated as a boarder at St Christopher School, Letchworth during World War II.[5] The self-published memoirs of Roger Atkinson, a school friend of Michael (Mike), indicate that Michael attended King Alfred School, London, located in Hampstead, retaining contacts at the school when it was evacuated in wartime to Royston, Hertfordshire; Atkinson was a boarder at St Christopher School, Letchworth from September 1942. In 1946 Atkinson and Drazin visited Paris together.[6]
Drazin was a student at the University of Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1950 and M.A. in 1953.[4] He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1953 for a dissertation Contributions to Abstract Algebra written with advisers Robert Rankin and David Rees.[7] He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1952 to 1956, during that period emigrating to the United States.[8]
In the academic year 1957–8 Drazin was Visiting Lecturer at Northwestern University.[9] In 1958 he began a period at RIAS Inc. (the Research Institute for Advanced Studies) in Baltimore as senior scientist, after which he took a position as associate professor at Purdue University in 1962.[8][10][11]
Works
Drazin gave his name to a type of
While at RIAS, Drazin worked with
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-4735-3842-9.
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- ^ The Times. No. 64534. January 6, 1993. p. 16.
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- ^ "Michael Drazin - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-134-08781-5.
- JSTOR 2310326.
- ^ "Personal Items" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 5 (32): 432. August 1958.
- ^ "Personal Items" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 9 (63): 376. October 1962.
- ISBN 978-981-4452-80-9.
- ^ United States National Bureau of Standards (1960). National Bureau of Standards Report. The Bureau. p. 3.
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- ^ Drazin, M. P.; Otte, Henry Martin (1964). Tables for Determining Cubic Crystal Orientations from Surface Traces of Octahedral Planes. P. M. Harrod Company.