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{{shortShort description|American mathematician (1927–2024)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = George B. Seligman
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1927|4|30|dfmf=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Attica (town), New York|Attica, New York]], U.S.
| death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY2024|MM04|DD 25|YYYY1927|MM04|DD30}} (death date then birth date)-->
| death_place = [[Hamden, Connecticut]], U.S.
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| fields = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces = [[Princeton University]]<br>[[Yale University]]
| alma_mater = [[Yale University of Rochester]]<br>[[UniversityYale of RochesterUniversity]]
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| thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )-->1954
| doctoral_advisor = [[Nathan Jacobson]]
| doctoral_students = [[James E. Humphreys]] <br/>Brian J Parshall<br/> [[Daniel K. Nakano]]
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'''George Benham Seligman''' (born 30 April 1927)<ref>biographical information ''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale 2004</ref> is an American mathematician who works on [[Lie algebras]], especially semi-simple Lie algebras.
 
'''George Benham Seligman''' (bornApril 30 April, 1927)<ref>biographical information April ''American Men and Women of Science''25, Thomson Gale 2004</ref>2024) iswas an American mathematician who worksworked on [[Lie algebras]], especially semi-simple Lie algebras.
Seligman received his bachelor's degree in 1950 from the [[University of Rochester]] and his PhD in 1954 from [[Yale University]] under [[Nathan Jacobson]] with thesis ''Lie algebras of prime characteristic''.<ref>{{MathGenealogyProject|id=4306}}</ref> After he received his PhD he was a Henry Burchard Fine Instructor at [[Princeton University]] from 1954–1956. In 1956 he became an instructor and from 1965 a full professor at Yale, where he was chair of the mathematics department from 1974 to 1977.
 
==Biography==
For the academic year 1958/59 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the [[University of Münster]]. His doctoral students include [[James E. Humphreys]] and [[Daniel K. Nakano]].
Seligman was born on April 30, 1927.<ref>biographical information via ''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale 2004</ref> He received his bachelor's degree in 1950 from the [[University of Rochester]] and his PhD in 1954 from [[Yale University]] under [[Nathan Jacobson]] with thesis ''Lie algebras of prime characteristic''.<ref>{{MathGenealogyProject|id=4306}}</ref> After he received his PhD he was a Henry Burchard Fine Instructor at [[Princeton University]] from 1954–1956. In 1956 he became an instructor and from 1965 a full professor at Yale, where he was chair of the mathematics department from 1974 to 1977.
 
For the academic year 1958/59 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the [[University of Münster]]. His doctoral students include [[James E. Humphreys]], [[Brian J Parshall]], and [[Daniel K. Nakano]].
Since 1959 he has been married to Irene Schwieder and the couple has two daughters.
 
Seligman married Irene Schwieder in 1959. The couple had two daughters. He died in [[Hamden, Connecticut]], on April 25, 2024, at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite web |title=George Benham Seligman |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/george-seligman-obituary?id=54981756 |access-date=May 3, 2024}}</ref>
 
==Selected works==
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*[https://books.google.com/books/about/On_Lie_Algebras_of_Prime_Characteristic.html?id=uDRrStNTBb8C ''On Lie algebras of prime characteristic''], American Mathematical Society, 1956
*[http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PPN=PPN559373430 ''Liesche Algebren''], Schriftenreihe des Mathematischen Instituts der Universität Münster, 1959
*''Modular Lie Algebras'', Springer Verlag 1967<ref>{{cite journal|author=Schafer, R. D.|authorlink=Richard D. Schafer|title=Review: ''Modular Lie algebras'' by George B. Seligman|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1971|volume=77|issue=5|pages=689–694|url=httphttps://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1971-77-05/S0002-9904-1971-12772-6/S0002-9904-1971-12772-6.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1971-12772-6|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*''Rational methods in Lie algebras'', [[Marcel Dekker|Marcel Dekke]]r 1976<ref>{{cite journal|authorlast=Humphreys,|first= J.James E.|authorlink=James E. Humphreys|title=Review: ''Rational methods in Lie algebras'' by George B. Seligman| year=1977|volume=83|issue=5|pages=993–997|url=httphttps://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1977-83-05/S0002-9904-1977-14348-6/S0002-9904-1977-14348-6.pdf|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14348-6|journal=[[Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society]]|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*''Rational constructions of modules for simple Lie algebras'', [[American Mathematical Society]] 1981
*''Construction of Lie Algebras and their Modules'', [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer Verlag]] 1988
 
===Articles===
*{{cite journal|title=On a class of semisimple restricted Lie algebras|journal=Proc[[Proceedings Natlof Acadthe SciNational UAcademy Sof ASciences of the United States of America]]|year=1954|volume=40|issue=8|pages=726–728|pmc=534151|pmid=16589548|doi=10.1073/pnas.40.8.726|last1=Seligman|first1=G. B.|bibcode=1954PNAS...40..726S|doi-access=free}}
*{{cite journal|title=Characteristic ideals and the structure of Lie algebras|journal=Proc.[[Proceedings Amer.of Math.the Soc.American Mathematical Society]]|year=1957|volume=8|pages=159–164|mr=0082974|doi=10.1090/s0002-9939-1957-0082974-9|doi-access=free|last1=Seligman|first1=George B.}}
*{{cite journal|title=On automorphisms of Lie algebras of classical type|journal=Trans.[[Transactions Amer.of Math.the Soc.American Mathematical Society]]|year=1959|volume=92|pages=430–448|mr=0106965|doi=10.1090/s0002-9947-1959-0106965-0|doi-access=free|last1=Seligman|first1=George B.|issue=3}}
*{{cite journal|title=On automorphisms of Lie algebras of classical type. II.|journal=Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1960|volume=94|pages=452–482|mr=0113969|doi=10.1090/s0002-9947-1960-0113969-9|doi-access=free|last1=Seligman|first1=George B.|issue=3}}
*{{cite journal|title=On automorphisms of Lie algebras of classical type. III.|journal=Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1960|volume=97|pages=286–312|mr=0123644|doi=10.1090/s0002-9947-1960-0123644-2|doi-access=free|last1=Seligman|first1=George B.|issue=2}}
*{{cite journal|title=Some results on Lie ''p''-algebras|journal=Bull.[[Bulletin Amer.of Math.the Soc.American Mathematical Society]]|year=1967|volume=73|pages=528–530|mr=0219585|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1967-11731-2|doi-access=free|last1=Seligman|first1=George B.|issue=4}}
*{{cite journal|title=Algebraic Lie groups|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1968|volume=74|pages=1051–1065|mr=0232810|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1968-12046-4|doi-access=free}}
*{{cite journal|title=On idempotents in reduced enveloping algebras|journal=Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=2003|volume=355|pages=3291–3300|mr=1974688|doi=10.1090/s0002-9947-03-03314-2|doi-access=free|last1=Seligman|first1=George B.|issue=8}}
 
==References==
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