- Hyman Bass
Hyman Bass (born 1932) is an American
mathematician , known for work in algebra. From 1959-1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department atColumbia University . He is currently the Roger Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Education at theUniversity of Michigan .Life
He earned his Ph.D. in 1959 from the
University of Chicago . His thesis, titled "Global dimensions of rings", was written under the supervision ofIrving Kaplansky .He has held visiting appointments at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, IHES andENS (Paris), Tata Institute (Bombay),University of Cambridge , UC Berkeley, University of Rome, IMPA (Rio),National Autonomous University of Mexico ,Mittag-Leffler Institute (Stockholm), and theUniversity of Utah . He was president of theAmerican Mathematical Society .Bass formerly chaired the Mathematical Sciences Education Board (1992-2000) at the
United States National Academy of Sciences , and the Committee on Education of the American Mathematical Society. He is now President of ICMI. Since 1996 he has been collaborating withDeborah Ball and her research group at the University of Michigan on the mathematical knowledge and resources entailed in the teaching of mathematics at the elementary level. He has worked to build bridges between diverse professional communities and stakeholders involved inmathematics education .Work
His research interests have been in
algebraic K-theory ,commutative algebra andalgebraic geometry ,algebraic group s, geometric methods ingroup theory , and ζ functions on finite simple graphs.Awards and Recognitions
Bass is a 2006
National Medal of Science laureate.External links
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* [http://sitemaker.soe.umich.edu/soe/faculty&mode=single&recordID=50713 Directory page at University of Michigan]
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