Robert Steinberg
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Robert Steinberg (born 1922) is a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles who invented the Steinberg representation, the Steinberg group in algebraic K-theory, and the Steinberg groups that are finite simple groups. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1948.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
[edit] Publications
- R. Steinberg, Collected Papers, Amer. Math. Soc. (1997), ISBN 0-8218-0576-2