Maxwell Rosenlicht

Maxwell Alexander Rose Light ( born April 15, 1924 in Brooklyn, † January 22, 1999 in Hawaii) was an American mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, algebraic groups and differential algebra.

Rose light went to school in Brooklyn (Erasmus High School ) and studied at Columbia University (Bachelor 1947) and at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1950 with Oscar Zariski ( Equivalence Concepts on an Algebraic Curve ). In 1952 he went to Northwestern University. 1958 until his retirement in 1991 he was a professor at the University of Berkeley, where he was from 1973 to 1975 Chairman of the Mathematics Department. He was also a visiting professor in Mexico City, at the IHES, in Rome, Leiden and Harvard.

In 1960 he was awarded with Serge Lang Cole Price in Algebra for his work on Jacobian varieties ( Generalized Jacobian varieties. Annals of Mathematics, Bd.59, 1954, S.505 -530, A universal mapping property of generalized Jacobians. Annals of Mathematics, Bd.66, 1957, pp. 80-88 ). He was also involved in the algorithmic algebraic theory of integration, where his pupil Robert Risch 1968 breakthrough.

Rose light was a Fulbright Fellow and 1954 Guggenheim Fellow.

He died on a trip to Hawaii on a neurological ailment in which he suffered for some time. Rose light was married since 1954 and had four children.

Writings

• Liouville 's theorem on functions with elementary integrals. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Vol 24, No. 1, 1968, pp. 153-161.
• Introduction to Analysis. Scott, Foresman, 1968; Dover Publications, 1985, ISBN 0-486-65038-3.
• Integration in finite terms. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 79, 1972, p 963-972, JSTOR.