Saunders Mac Lane Papers, 1967-1979

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Saunders Mac Lane Papers, 1967-1979

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Mathematician Saunders Mac Lane (1909-) was a co-creator of category theory and also worked with homological algebra and the categorical foundations of mathematics. This collection consists of correspondence, agendas, minutes and reports related to Saunders Mac Lane's presidency (1973-1974) of the American Mathematical Society and his work with the Joint Projects Committee for Mathematics.

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Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

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Mathematician Saunders Mac Lane (1909-) was a co-creator of category theory and also worked with homological algebra and the categorical foundations of mathematics. After earning his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1930, Mac Lane studied at the University of Chicago under E. H. Moore and then went to the University of Göttingen in Germany, earning his degree under I. Paul Bernays and Hermann Weyl in 1933, and returning to the United States. Mac Lane worked in the Applied Mathematics Groups at ...

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