Saunders Mac Lane

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human mathematician university teacher

Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician best known as a co-founder of category theory and for his influential work in algebra and homological algebra.

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Mac Lane ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → university teacher →
academicDegree	PhD in mathematics →
awardReceived	National Medal of Science → Steele Prize →
coAuthor	Garrett Birkhoff → Ieke Moerdijk → Peter Johnstone → Samuel Eilenberg →
coFounderOf	category theory →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1909-08-04 →
dateOfDeath	2005-04-14 →
doctoralAdvisor	Hermann Weyl → Paul Bernays →
educatedAt	University of Chicago → University of Göttingen → Yale University →
employer	Cornell University → Harvard University → University of Chicago →
familyName	Mac Lane →
fieldOfWork	algebra → algebraic topology → category theory → homological algebra → topos theory →
givenName	Saunders →
hasAcademicDiscipline	mathematics →
influenced	category theory in computer science → foundations of mathematics →
knownFor	co-founding category theory → contributions to algebraic topology → contributions to homological algebra → foundational work in category theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Mathematical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
name	Saunders Mac Lane →
notableStudent	Peter Freyd →
notableWork	Categories for the Working Mathematician → Homology → Sheaves in Geometry and Logic →
occupation	mathematician →
placeOfBirth	Norwich, Connecticut, United States of America →
placeOfDeath	San Francisco, California, United States of America →
positionHeld	president of the American Mathematical Society →
sexOrGender	male →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Amalie Noether → Emmy Noether →	influenced
Saunders Mac Lane ("Mac Lane") →	familyName
Saunders Mac Lane →	name
Hermann Weyl →	notableStudent