Biography:Steven Takiff

Short description: American mathematician

Steven Joel Takiff
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Michigan State University
Doctoral advisor	R. Ranga Rao

Steven Joel Takiff is an American mathematician who introduced what became Takiff algebras in 1971.

Publications

• Takiff, S. J. (1971), "Rings of invariant polynomials for a class of Lie algebras", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 160: 249–262, doi:10.2307/1995803, ISSN 0002-9947 
• Takiff, S. J. (1972), "Invariant Polynomials on Lie algebras of Inhomogeneous Unitary and Special Orthogonal Groups", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 170: 221–230, doi:10.2307/1996305, ISSN 0002-9947 

External links

• Doctoral graduates from 1903-present, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• LinkedIn account