Robert Steinberg

Robert Steinberg (born May 25, 1922 in Soroki, Bessarabia, Romania (present day Soroca, Moldavia)) is a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles who introduced the Steinberg representation, the Lang–Steinberg theorem, the Steinberg group in algebraic K-theory, Steinberg's formula in representation theory, and the Steinberg groups in Lie theory that yield finite simple groups over finite fields. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1948.

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966, won the Steele Prize in 1985, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985, and won the Jeffery-Williams Prize in 1990. He retired from UCLA in 1992.

Publications

• Steinberg, Robert (1962). "Générateurs, relations et revêtements de groupes algébriques". Colloq. Théorie des Groupes Algébriques (in French) (Bruxelles: Gauthier-Villars): 113–127. MR MR0153677. Zbl 0272.20036. 
• Steinberg, Robert (1968), Lectures on Chevalley groups, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., MR 0466335 
• Steinberg, Robert (1974), Conjugacy classes in algebraic groups., Lecture Notes in Mathematics 366, Berlin-New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0067854, ISBN 978-3-540-06657-6, MR 0352279 
• R. Steinberg, Collected Papers, Amer. Math. Soc. (1997), ISBN 0-8218-0576-2.

External links

• UCLA page
• Robert Steinberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project