Earl Taft
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1931
Yale University
Earl Taft | |
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 Taft in the early 2010s | |
| Born | Earl Jay Taft 1931 |
| Died | (aged 89) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Education | Amherst College Yale University |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Spouse | Hessy Levinsons |
| Children | 2 |
Earl Jay Taft (1931 – August 9, 2021)[1] was an American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. He is the namesake of the Taft Hopf algebra[2] which he introduced in a 1971 publication,[3] and he was the founding editor of the journal Communications in Algebra.[4] He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Rutgers University.[5]
Taft graduated from Amherst College in 1952.[6] He completed his doctorate at Yale University in 1956. His dissertation, Invariant Wedderburn Factors, was supervised by Nathan Jacobson.[7] After working as Ritt Instructor of mathematics at Columbia University from 1956 to 1959,[6] he moved to Rutgers University, where he remained for many years.[8] He was also a regular visitor to the Institute for Advanced Study.[6]
