Richard Swan

Richard Gordon Swan (/swɑːn/; born 1933) is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre–Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules,[1] and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group.[2] His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory.

Education and career

Swan earned his Ph.D. in 1957 from Princeton University under the supervision of John Coleman Moore.[3] He is the Louis Block Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Chicago.[4] His doctoral students at Chicago include Charles Weibel, also known for his work in K-theory.[3]

Books

References

  1. Manoharan, P. (1995), "Generalized Swan's Theorem and its Application", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 123 (10): 3219–3223, JSTOR 2160685, doi:10.2307/2160685.
  2. Huber, R. (2001), "Swan representations associated with rigid analytic curves", Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, 537: 165–234, MR 1856262, doi:10.1515/crll.2001.063.
  3. 1 2 Richard Gordon Swan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. University of Chicago Mathematics Faculty Listing, retrieved 2015-08-31.


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