Tsit Yuen Lam
Tsit Yuen Lam(Chinese:Lâm tiết huyền;pinyin:Lín Jiéxuán;[1]born 6 February 1942[2]) is a Hong Kong-American mathematician specializing inalgebra,especiallyring theoryandquadratic forms.
Academic career
[edit]Lam earned his bachelor's degree at theUniversity of Hong Kongin 1963 and hisPh.D.atColumbia Universityin 1967 underHyman Bass,with a thesis titledOnGrothendieck Groups.[3]Subsequently, he was an instructor at theUniversity of Chicagoand since 1968 he has been at theUniversity of California, Berkeley,where he became assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1972, and full professor in 1976. He served as assistant department head several times. From 1995 to 1997 he was Deputy Director of theMathematical Sciences Research InstituteinBerkeley, California.[2]
Among his doctoral students isRichard Elman.[3]
Awards and honors
[edit]From 1972 to 1974 he was aSloan Fellow;in 1978–79 aMillerResearch Professor; and in 1981–82 aGuggenheim Fellow.In 1982 he was awarded theLeroy P. Steele Prizefor his textbooks.[4]
In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- Serre’s Conjecture.Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer, 1978
- Serre’s Problem onProjective Modules.Springer 2006;[6]2nd printing, 2010
- The Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms.Benjamin 1973, 1980; new version published asIntroduction to Quadratic Forms over Fields,American Mathematical Society, 2005[7]
- A First Course inNon-Commutative Rings.Graduate Texts in Mathematics,Springer 1991,2nd edition 2001,ISBN0-387-95325-6
- Lectures on Modules and Rings.Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1999,ISBN978-0-387-98428-5
- Sums of squares of real polynomials.(with Man-Duen Choi &Bruce Reznick),Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics58, 103–126, 1995
- Orderings, Valuations and Quadratic Forms.AMS 1983
- Exercises in Classical Ring Theory.Springer 1985
- Representations of Finite Groups: A Hundred Years.Part I,Part II.Notices of the AMS 1998. (pdf files)
References
[edit]- ^Faculty Website,retrieved 2014-08-13.
- ^abCurriculum vitae: T. Y. Lam,retrieved 2013-01-12
- ^abT.-Y. (Tsit-Yuen) Lamat theMathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^O'Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F,"The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS",MacTutor History of Mathematics archive,University of St Andrews,retrieved2013-01-12.
- ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society,retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ^Swan, Richard G.(2008)."Review:Serre's problem on projective modulesby T. Y. Lam "(PDF).Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.(N.S.).45(3): 451–457.doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-08-01171-3.
- ^Bayer-Fluckinger, Eva (2008)."Review:Introduction to quadratic forms over fieldsby T. Y. Lam "(PDF).Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.).45(3): 479–484.doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01200-7.
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- Algebraists
- 1942 births
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- 20th-century Hong Kong mathematicians
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
- Columbia University alumni
- University of Chicago faculty
- University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
- Living people