Biography:Robert Wayne Thomason
Robert Wayne Thomason (5 November 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States – 5 November 1995 in Paris, France )[1] was an American mathematician who worked on algebraic K-theory. His results include a proof that all infinite loop space machines are in some sense equivalent, and progress on the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture.
Thomason did his undergraduate studies at Michigan State University, graduating with a B.S. in mathematics in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1977, under the supervision of John Moore. From 1977 to 1979 he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1979 to 1980 he was a Dickson Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago before resigning due to perceived lack of support by senior faculty.[2] After spending a year as a lecturer at MIT and another at the Institute for Advanced Study, he was appointed as faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1983.
Thomason suffered from diabetes; in early November 1995, just shy of his 43rd birthday, he went into diabetic shock and died in his apartment in Paris.[2]
Publications
- May, J. Peter; Thomason, R. (1978), "The uniqueness of infinite loop space machines", Topology 17 (3): 205–224, doi:10.1016/0040-9383(78)90026-5, ISSN 0040-9383
- Thomason, Robert W. (1985), "Algebraic K-theory and étale cohomology", Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Quatrième Série 18 (3): 437–552, doi:10.24033/asens.1495, ISSN 0012-9593, http://www.numdam.org/item/10.24033/asens.1495.pdf Erratum
- Thomason, Robert W.; Trobaugh, Thomas (1990), "Higher Algebraic K-Theory of Schemes and of Derived Categories", The Grothendieck Festschrift Volume III, Progr. Math., 88, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, pp. 247–435, doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-4576-2_10, ISBN 978-0-8176-3487-2
- Thomason, Robert W. (1991), "The local to global principle in algebraic K-theory", in Satake, Ichirô, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Kyoto, 1990), Tokyo: Math. Soc. Japan, pp. 381–394, ISBN 978-4-431-70047-0, http://mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1990.1/
References
- ↑ EDITORIAL NOTICE: ROBERT W. THOMASON, 1952-1995
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Weibel, Charles A. (1996), "Robert W. Thomason (1952–1995)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 43 (8): 860–862, ISSN 0002-9920
- Bak, Anthony; Weibel, Charles (1997), "A tribute to Robert Wayne Thomason (1952–1995)", K-Theory 12 (1): 1–2, doi:10.1023/A:1007709906247, ISSN 0920-3036
- Snaith, Victor (1997), "Robert Wayne Thomason. 1952–1995", Algebraic K-theory (Toronto, ON, 1996), Fields Inst. Commun., 16, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. ix–xiii
- Weibel, Charles A. (1997), "The mathematical enterprises of Robert Thomason", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, New Series 34 (1): 1–13, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00707-6, ISSN 0002-9904
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Robert Wayne Thomason", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thomason.html.
- Robert Wayne Thomason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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