Irvin Cohen
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Irvin Sol Cohen (died Feb 14, 1955) was an American mathematician at M.I.T. who worked on local rings. He was a student of Oscar Zariski at Johns Hopkins University.
In 1946 he proved the unmixedness theorem for power series rings, as a result of which Cohen-Macaulay ring are named after him, and F. S. Macaulay.
[edit] References
- Irvin Cohen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- I.S. Cohen, On the structure and ideal theory of complete local rings Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. , 59 (1946) pp. 54–106
- The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 62, No. 4. (Apr., 1955), pp. 296.
