David Buchsbaum

David Alvin boxwood ( born November 6, 1929) is an American mathematician who deals with algebra.

Life

Boxwood earned his bachelor's degree in 1949 from Columbia College in New York City and in 1954 received his doctorate in Samuel Eilenberg at Columbia University ( Exact Categories and Duality ). As a post - graduate student, he was instructor at Princeton University and the University of Chicago.

In 1956 he became assistant professor in 1959 and associate professor at Brown University in 1961 and an associate professor at Brandeis University. In 1963 he received a full professorship from 1962 to 1964, he was the mathematics faculty before (and again from 1980 to 1982 and from 1994 until 1996). In 1999 he retired. He has been a visiting professor in Rome, Bologna, Turin, Genoa, Montpellier, Valladolid and Caracas.

Boxwood dealt with commutative and homo Logical Algebra and representation theory of algebras and groups. He has published, among others, Maurice Auslander ( since 1956, for example, theory of Noetherian rings ), David Eisenbud, Gian- Carlo Rota. In 1955, he was regardless of Alexander Grothendieck an axiomatic definition of the abelian category.

1965/66 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• With G. Boffi Threading homology through algebra: selected patterns, Oxford University Press 2006
• Boxwood Through a glass, memories 2007 pdf