Samuel Eilenberg
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Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913-January 30, 1998) was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Poland and died in New York, USA where he had spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University.
His main interest was algebraic topology. He worked on the axiomatic treatment of homology theory with Norman Steenrod (whose names the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms bear), and on homological algebra with Saunders Mac Lane, wrote a book on homological algebra with Henri Cartan that became a classic, and took part in the Bourbaki group meetings. Later in life he worked mainly in pure category theory, being one of the founders of the field. The Eilenberg telescope is a surprising construction, applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules. Eilenberg also wrote an important book on automata theory.
The X-machine (a form of automaton) was introduced in 1974 by Samuel Eilenberg.
See also
References
- S.Eilenberg. Automata, Languages and Machines. ISBN 0122340019
External links
- [] at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- [Eilenberg's biography] − from the National Academies Press, by Hyman Bass, Henri Cartan, Peter Freyd, Alex Heller and Saunders Mac Lane.
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