John Coleman Moore
John Coleman Moore | |
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| Born | May 27, 1923 Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 1, 2016 (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BA) Brown University (PhD) |
| Known for | Borel–Moore homology Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence Milnor–Moore theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of Rochester |
| Doctoral advisor | George W. Whitehead |
| Doctoral students | Paul Baum William Browder Robin Hartshorne Eric Lander J. Peter May Haynes Miller Joseph Neisendorfer Michael Rosen James Stasheff Richard Swan Robert Thomason |
John Coleman Moore (May 27, 1923 – January 1, 2016) was an American mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Moore was born in 1923 in Staten Island, New York.[2] He received his B.A. in 1948 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in 1952 from Brown University under the supervision of George W. Whitehead.
Career
[edit]Moore began his career at Princeton University as an instructor, and was eventually promoted to full professor in 1961. He retired from Princeton in 1989, after which he took a half-time position at the University of Rochester.[3]
His most-cited paper is on Hopf algebras, co-authored with John Milnor.[4] As a faculty member at Princeton University, he advised 24 students and is the academic ancestor of over 1000 mathematicians.[5] He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1958[6] in Edinburgh and in 1970 in Nice.
In 1983, a conference on K-theory was held at Princeton in honor of Moore's 60th birthday.[7] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8] He died in 2016 at the age of 92.[9]
Publications
[edit]- Cohen, Frederick R.; Moore, John C.; Neisendorfer, Joseph A. (1979). "Torsion in homotopy groups". Annals of Mathematics. (2). 109 (1): 121–168. doi:10.2307/1971269. JSTOR 1971269. MR 0519355.
- Cohen, Frederick R.; Moore, John C.; Neisendorfer, Joseph A. (1979). "The double suspension and exponents of the homotopy groups of spheres". Annals of Mathematics. (2). 110 (3): 549–565. doi:10.2307/1971238. JSTOR 1971238. MR 0519355.
References
[edit]- ^ Rusin, Dave (1998). "People whose names are embedded in Math Subject Classification". Archived from the original on 2013-06-04.. Updated February 2005.
- ^ Pamela Kalte et al. American Men and Women of Science, 22. Edition, Thomson Gale 2005
- ^ "Department Remembers John Coleman Moore (1925-2016)". Princeton University, Department of Mathematics. 2018.
- ^ Milnor, John W.; Moore, John C. (1965). "On the structure of Hopf algebras". Annals of Mathematics. 81 (2): 211–264. doi:10.2307/1970615. JSTOR 1970615..
- ^ John Coleman Moore at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "7 Princetonians at the International Congress of Mathematicians". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 9 May 1958. p. 14.
- ^ Browder, William (1987). Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory: Proceedings of a Conference, October 24-28, 1983 at Princeton University, Dedicated to John C. Moore on His 60th Birthday. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08426-2..
- ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". Retrieved 2013-02-10.
- ^ Kelly, Morgan (2016). "John C. Moore, dedicated and influential Princeton mathematician, dies". Princeton University..
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