Israel Nathan Herstein
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Israel Nathan Herstein (March 28, 1923, Lublin, Poland – February 9, 1988, Chicago, Illinois) was a mathematician, appointed as professor at the University of Chicago in 1951. He worked on a variety of areas of algebra, including ring theory, with over 100 publications.
He received his Ph.D from Indiana University in 1948. His advisor was Max Zorn.
He is known for his lucid style of writing, as exemplified by the widely influential Topics in Algebra, an undergraduate introduction to abstract algebra. A more advanced classic text is his Noncommutative Rings in the Carus Mathematical Monographs series.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Israel Nathan Herstein". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Israel Nathan Herstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
