Died 1998-01-30.
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Samuel Eilenberg
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory and homological algebra.
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science · Polish-American mathematician (1913–1998) · mathematician · topologist · university teacher · art collector · also Samuel Eilenberg, Eilenberg
Born 30 September 1913 · Died 30 January 1998 · Q535833
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Leroy P. Steele Prize (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1986).
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1950).
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1936· 2 entries
Studied at University of Warsaw (1936).
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With thesis On the Topological Applications of Maps onto a Circle; his thesis advisors were Kazimierz Kuratowski and Karol Borsuk
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-09-30.
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