Robert Steinberg

Robert Steinberg ( born May 25, 1922 in Soroki ( Bessarabia ), today Soroca, Moldova) is an American mathematician who, among other things to engaged in group theory.

Life and work

Steinberg in 1948 received his doctorate at the University of Toronto with Richard Brauer ( " Representations of the fractional linear groups" ). He was a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he retired in 1992. 1955/56 and 1961/62 and 1969 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Steinberg discovered a rollicking in the treatment of Claude Chevalley class of finite simple groups of Lie type, named after him Steinberg groups. Also known under the name Steinberg group is its construction of the universal extension of the general linear group. This was later used by Milnor in algebraic K-theory for an explicit construction of. Certain representations of finite groups over finite fields of characteristic p are Steinberg representations or Steinberg modules ( Steinberg 1957) called.

In 1985 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and the 1990 Jeffery -Williams Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1985. He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966 in Moscow ( Classes of elements of semisimple algebraic groups).

Writings

  • Collected Papers, AMS 1997
  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1922
  • Man
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