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Mexican mathematician (1933-2014)
Samuel Gitler in 2014
Samuel Carlos Gitler Hammer (July 14, 1933 – September 9, 2014)
[1]
[2] was a Mexican mathematician. He was an expert in
Yang–Mills theory and is known for the
Brown–Gitler spectrum .
Born to a
Jewish family in
Mexico City ,
[3] Gitler studied
civil engineering at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico , graduating in 1956. He then did his graduate studies in mathematics at
Princeton University with
Norman Steenrod , earning a doctorate in 1960. He taught briefly at
Brandeis University and then returned to Mexico, where he was one of the founders of the mathematics department of
CINVESTAV .
Gitler was president of the Mexican Mathematical Society from 1967 to 1969, and chair at CINVESTAV from 1973 to 1981. In the late 1980s he moved to the
University of Rochester , where he chaired the mathematics department. After retiring from Rochester in 2000, he returned to CINVESTAV.
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[2]
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Gitler won Mexico's
National Prize for Science in 1976. In 1986 he became a member of the
Colegio Nacional .
[1]
[2] In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society .
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Publications
Brown, Edgar H. Jr. ; Gitler, Samuel (1973).
"A spectrum whose cohomology is a certain cyclic module over the Steenrod algebra" .
Topology . 12 (3): 283–295.
doi :
10.1016/0040-9383(73)90014-1 .
MR
0391071 .
Cohen, Frederick R. ; Gitler, Samuel (2002).
"On loop spaces of configuration spaces" .
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society . 354 (5): 1705–1748.
doi :
10.1090/S0002-9947-02-02948-3 .
MR
1881013 .
Bahri, Anthony; Bendersky, Martin;
Cohen, Frederick R. ; Gitler, Samuel (2010).
"The polyhedral product functor: a method of decomposition for moment-angle complexes, arrangements and related spaces" .
Advances in Mathematics . 225 (3): 1634–1668.
doi :
10.1016/j.aim.2010.03.026 .
MR
2673742 .
S2CID
16069626 .
Gitler, Samuel; López de Medrano, Santiago (2013). "Intersections of quadrics, moment-angle manifolds and connected sums".
Geometry & Topology . 17 (3): 1497–1534.
arXiv :
0901.2580 .
doi :
10.2140/gt.2013.17.1497 .
MR
3073929 .
S2CID
18250349 .
References
External links
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