Saunders Mac Lane
1909 - 2005
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Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who worked in cohomology and category theory, but who is best known for the algebra book he wrote with Garrett Birkhoff.
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| Honours awarded to Saunders Mac Lane (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| MAA Chauvenet Prize winner | 1941 |
| AMS Colloquium Lecturer | 1963 |
| American Maths Society President | 1973 - 1974 |
| AMS Steele Prize | 1986 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | |
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- AMS (The AMS article by Mac Lane about Mathematics at Göttingen under the Nazis) [registration required]
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