Ellis Kolchin

Ellis Robert Kolchin (April 18, 1916–October 30, 1991) was an American mathematician at Columbia University. Kolchin earned a doctorate in mathematics from Columbia University in 1941 under supervision of Joseph Ritt. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 and 1961.

Kolchin worked on differential algebra and its relation to differential equations, and founded the modern theory of linear algebraic groups.

See also

• Kolchin topology
• Lie–Kolchin theorem
• Picard–Vessiot theory

Publications

• Kolchin, E. R. (1985), Differential algebraic groups, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 114, Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-417640-9, MR776230, http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0124176402 
• Kolchin, E. R. (1973), Differential algebra and algebraic groups, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 54, Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-417650-8, MR0568864, http://books.google.com/books?isbn=012417650X 
• Kolchin, Ellis (1999), Selected works of Ellis Kolchin with commentary, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0542-8, MR1677530, http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=CWORKS-12 

References

• Bass, Hyman; Cassidy, Phyllis J.; Kovacic, Jerald, eds. (1977), Contributions to algebra, A collection of papers dedicated to Ellis Kolchin, New York: Academic Press [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers], ISBN 978-0-12-080550-1, MR0457031, http://books.google.com/books?id=BgGFAAAAIAAJ 
• Bass, Hyman; Cassidy, Phyllis (1992), "Ellis Kolchin (1916--1991)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 39 (6): 599–600, ISSN 0002-9920, MR1170740 
• Borel, Armand (2001), Essays in the history of Lie groups and algebraic groups, History of Mathematics, 21, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0288-5, MR1847105, http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0821802887 
• Hevesi, Dennis (1991), "Prof. Ellis R. Kolchin Dies at 75; A Shaper of Differential Algebra", New York Times obituary, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DE143DF930A35752C1A967958260 
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ellis Kolchin", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kolchin.html .

External links

• Ellis Kolchin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.