David Alvin Buchsbaum (November 6, 1929[1] – January 8, 2021[2]) was a mathematician at Brandeis University who worked on commutative algebra, homological algebra, and representation theory. He proved the Auslander–Buchsbaum formula and the Auslander–Buchsbaum theorem.
Career
Buchsbaum earned his Ph.D. under Samuel Eilenberg in 1954 from Columbia University with thesis Exact Categories and Duality.[3] Among his doctoral students are Peter J. Freyd and Hema Srinivasan. In 1995, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ CV for Buchsbaum from people.brandeis.org
- ↑ "David Buchsbaum, 1929 – 2021". 11 January 2021.
- ↑ David Buchsbaum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
External links
- Home page of David Buchsbaum
- Eisenbud, David; Weyman, Jerzy (January 2022). "Remembering David Buchsbaum" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 69 (1): 1931–1950. doi:10.1090/noti2410.
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