Hyman Bass

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Hyman Bass (b. 1932) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra. From 1959-1998 he was in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University.

His research interests have been in algebraic K-theory, commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, and geometric methods in group theory. He has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, IHES and ENS (Paris), TIFR (Bombay), University of Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Univ. di Roma, IMPA (Rio), UNAM (Mexico), Mittag-Leffler Institute (Stockholm), University of Utah (Salt Lake City). Bass was president of the American Mathematical Society.

He formerly chaired the Mathematical Sciences Education Board (1992-2000) at the US 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 with Deborah 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 in mathematics education.

[edit] Research interests

• ζ functions on finite simple graphs.