Jeffrey Brian Remmel (October 12, 1948 – September 29, 2017) was an American mathematician employed by the University of California, San Diego. ^[1] At the time of his death he held a distinguished professorship—his title was Distinguished Professor of Mathematics; ^[2] he also held a position as a professor of computer science. ^[3]

Personal life

Remmel was born on October 12, 1948, in Clintonville, Wisconsin. ^[4] He died aged 68 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California on September 2, 2017, ^[1] with a reported cause of death being a heart attack. ^[5]

Education

Remmel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1974. Later, he received two degrees from Cornell University—a Master of Science in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy, also in math (1972 and 1974, respectively). ^[3] At Cornell, he was advised by Anil Nerode, and his dissertation was entitled Co-recursively Enumerable Structures. ^[6]

Career

After obtaining his Ph.D., ^[a] though before he had published a single paper, ^[4] Remmel joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor, where he worked for his entire career. ^[2] Remmel was noted for his successful publication record in two separate fields— logic, in which he published in mathematical logic; and combinatorics, where he published papers on algebraic combinatorics. ^[6] He published over 20 papers in logic with Victor W. Marek, ^[7] and Remmel's more prominent career in combinatorics included over 20 co-authored papers with Sergey Kitaev. ^[4] A double issue of the Journal of Combinatorics ^[b] was published in his memory. ^[8]

Remmel's work is highly cited in the fields of vector spaces, including computably enumerable sets and vector spaces. ^[c]

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