Paul Monsky
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Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. |
Paul Monsky (born June 17, 1936) is an American mathematician and professor at Brandeis University.
After earning a bachelor's degree from
Walter Lewis Baily, Jr.[1] He has introduced the Monsky–Washnitzer cohomology and he has worked intensively on Hilbert–Kunz functions and Hilbert–Kunz multiplicity. In 2007, Monsky and Holger Brenner gave an example showing that tight closure does not commute with localization.[2]
Monsky's theorem, the statement that a square cannot be divided into an odd number of equal-area triangles, is named after Monsky, who published the first proof of it in 1970.[3]
In the mid-1970s, Monsky stopped paying U.S. federal income tax in protest against military spending. He resisted income tax withholding by claiming extra exemptions, and this led to a criminal conviction on tax charges in 1980.[4]
References
- ^ Paul Monsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- S2CID 5950298.
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- ^ "Professor to Face Trial In Antiwar Tax Protest". New York Times. 10 March 1980. p. D8.
- Syre, Steven W. (10 April 1980). "More Individuals, Groups Refuse to Pay Taxes". The Bryan Times. p. 12.
External links
- "Paul Monsky". Brandeis University.
- Brenner, Holger; Monsky, Paul (October 15, 2007). "Tight closure does not commute with localization". arXiv:0710.2913v3 [math.AC].
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