Murray Gerstenhaber

Murray Gerstenhaber (born June 5, 1927) is an American mathematician, professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for his contributions to theoretical physics with his discovery of Gerstenhaber algebra.

About

Gesternhaber was born in Brooklyn. From 1945 to 1947 he served as an infantry in the United States Army. He finished his B.Sc. in mathematics at Yale University (1948), and while there, he participated in silver-award winning teams with celebrated mathematicians, such as Murray Gell-Mann and Henry O. Pollak. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. (1951) degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, under the instruction of Abraham Adrian Albert.

He was an assistant professor at the department of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1958, rising to Associate Professor, (1958–61) and full Professor (1961–present).

Gerstenhaber earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1973) and was admitted to Pennsylvania bar in 1974. He is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

His research interests include: Algebraic Deformation Theory, Universal Algebra, Quantum Groups and Statistics for Law.

Links

• Personal Homepage
• Murray Gerstenhaber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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