Jan-Erik Roos
Swedish mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics Uppsala University
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- Bachelors Mathematics Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jan-Erik Ingvar Roos was a Swedish mathematician whose research interests were in abelian category theory, homological algebra, and related areas. He was born in Halmstad, in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Roos enrolled at Lund University in 1954, and started studying mathematics with Lars Gårding in 1957. Under Gårding's direction he wrote a thesis on ordinary differential equation, and graduated in 1958 with a licentiate degree. Later that year he went to Paris on a doctoral scholarship; there, he gravitated towards the mathematical environment at the Institut Henri Poincaré, and the various seminars held there. After a while, he started attending Alexander Grothendieck's seminar at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, where he became interested in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry. In 1967 he was invited by Saunders Mac Lane to visit the University of Chicago for three months; Mac Lane was impressed by Roos and later wrote a very positive letter of recommendation for him.
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