Daniel Gorenstein
Mathematician, Academic
1923 – 1992
Who was Daniel Gorenstein?
Daniel E. Gorenstein was an American mathematician. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1950 under Oscar Zariski, introducing in his dissertation a duality principle for plane curves that motivated Grothendieck's introduction of Gorenstein rings. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups.
After teaching mathematics to military personnel at Harvard before earning his doctorate, Gorenstein held posts at Clark University and Northeastern University before he began teaching at Rutgers University in 1969, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was the founding director of DIMACS in 1989, and remained as its director until his death.
Gorenstein was awarded many honors for his work on finite simple groups. He was recognised, in addition to his own research contributions such as work on signalizer functors, as a leader in directing the classification proof, the largest collaborative piece of pure mathematics ever attempted.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1923
Boston - Also known as
- Daniel E. Gorenstein
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Mathematics
( - 1950)
- PhD, Harvard University
- Employment
- Rutgers University
- Lived in
- Chilmark
( - 1992/08/26) - Rocky Hill
(1969 - 1992/08/26)
- Chilmark
- Died
- Aug 26, 1992
Chilmark
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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