Douglas Northcott

Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, ( born December 31, 1916 in London, † April 8, 2005 ) was a British mathematician who worked on commutative algebra.

Northcott studied at St. John 's College, Cambridge University in Godfrey Harold Hardy. The studies were interrupted during World War II by his military service, which he spent in Japanese captivity after the fall of Singapore. 1946 to 1948 he was at Princeton University, where he turned under the influence of Emil Artin of the Analysis of algebra. From 1948 he was a research fellow at Cambridge and from 1952 professor at the University of Sheffield ( Town Trust Chair of Pure Mathematics ), where he remained until his retirement in 1982.

In the commutative algebra it is known among other things for work with David Rees in 1954.

In 1953 he was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize. In 1968/69, he was Vice President of the London Mathematical Society. In 1961 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Writings

  • Multilinear algebra, Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-521-26269-0
  • A first course of homological algebra.Cambridge University Press, 1973, 1980. ISBN 0-521-29976-4
  • Affine sets and affine groups. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Vol 39 Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN 0 - 521-22909 -X
  • Finite free resolutions. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, No. 71, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 2004.
  • Lessons on rings, modules and multiplicities. Cambridge University Press, London, 1968
  • An introduction to homological algebra. Cambridge University Press, 1960
  • Ideal theory. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, No. 42, Cambridge University Press, 1953.
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