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George Seligman

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George B. Seligman
Born(1927-04-30)April 30, 1927
DiedApril 25, 2024(2024-04-25) (aged 96)
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Yale University
Thesis Lie algebras of prime characteristic  (1954)
Doctoral advisorNathan Jacobson
Doctoral studentsJames E. Humphreys
Brian J Parshall
Daniel K. Nakano

George Benham Seligman (April 30, 1927 – April 25, 2024) was an American mathematician who worked on Lie algebras, especially semi-simple Lie algebras.

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Seligman was born on April 30, 1927.[1] He received his bachelor's degree in 1950 from the University of Rochester and his PhD in 1954 from Yale University under Nathan Jacobson with thesis Lie algebras of prime characteristic.[2] After he received his PhD he was a Henry Burchard Fine Instructor at Princeton University from 1954–1956. In 1956 he became an instructor and from 1965 a full professor at Yale, where he was chair of the mathematics department from 1974 to 1977.

For the academic year 1958/59 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Münster. His doctoral students include James E. Humphreys, Brian J Parshall, and Daniel K. Nakano.

Seligman married Irene Schwieder in 1959. The couple had two daughters. He died in Hamden, Connecticut, on April 25, 2024, at the age of 96.[3]

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  1. ^ biographical information via American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ George Seligman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "George Benham Seligman". Retrieved May 3, 2024.
  4. ^ Schafer, R. D. (1971). "Review: Modular Lie algebras by George B. Seligman" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (5): 689–694. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1971-12772-6.
  5. ^ Humphreys, James E. (1977). "Review: Rational methods in Lie algebras by George B. Seligman" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 83 (5): 993–997. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14348-6.