Tsit Yuen Lam

Tsit Yuen Lam, also Tsit - Yuen Lam, ( born February 6, 1942), is a Sino- American mathematician who deals with algebra.

Lam studied at the University of Hong Kong (Bachelor 1963) and at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate at Hyman Bass 1967 ( On Grothendieck groups). Afterwards, he was instructor at the University of Chicago and made in 1968 at the University of Berkeley career, where he was an assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1976. He was there several times deputy director of the Mathematics Department. 1995 to 1997 he was Deputy Director of the MSRI in Berkeley.

Lam dealt among other things with ring theory and quadratic forms.

1972 to 1974 he was a Sloan Fellow and 1981/82 Guggenheim Fellow. In 1982 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his textbooks. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

His doctoral counts Richard Elman.

Writings

• Serre 's Conjecture. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer, 1978
• Serre 's problem on projective modules. Springer 2006
• The algebraic theory of quadratic forms. Benjamin 1973 1980
• A First course in non commutative rings. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 1991, 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 0-387-95325-6
• Lectures on Modules and Rings. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1999, ISBN 978-0-387-98428-5
• Orderings, Valuations and Quadratic Forms. AMS 1983
• Exercises in classical ring theory. Springer 1985