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Richard D. Schafer

Mathematics

#1760

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#2821

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#716

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Measure Theory

#2389

World Rank

#2859

Historical Rank

#677

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PhD Mathematics Princeton University
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According to Wikipedia, Richard Donald Schafer was an American mathematician. Richard Schafer studied at the University at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1938 and his master's degree in 1940. He received in 1942 from the University of Chicago his PhD under Abraham Adrian Albert with dissertation Alternative Algebras over an Arbitrary Field. After service in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945, he was an instructor at the University of Michigan for the academic year 1945–1946. From 1946 to 1948 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1948 to 1953 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1953 to 1958 he was at University of Connecticut as professor and head of the mathematics department. He spent the academic year 1958–1959 at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1959 until his retirement in 1988, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012 he was elected was a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Richard D. Schafer's Published Works

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An Introduction to Nonassociative Algebras (1966) (1182)
On the Algebras Formed by the Cayley-Dickson Process (1954) (126)
The Exceptional Simple Lie Algebras F(4) and E(6). (1950) (105)
Structure of Genetic Algebras (1949) (62)
Noncommutative Jordan algebras of characteristic 0 (1955) (55)
Representations of alternative algebras (1952) (46)
Alternative algebras over an arbitrary field (1943) (43)
Inner derivations of non-associative algebras (1949) (37)
The Wedderburn principal theorem for alternative algebras (1949) (37)
ON GENERALIZED STANDARD ALGEBRAS* (1968) (33)
The Exceptional Simple Jordan Algebras (1948) (24)
Nodal noncommutative Jordan algebras and simple Lie algebras of characteristic $p$ (1960) (20)
Structure and representation of nonassociative algebras (1955) (19)
On structurable algebras (1985) (15)
On noncommutative Jordan algebras (1958) (14)
Forms permitting composition (1970) (14)
A theorem on the derivations of Jordan algebras (1951) (10)
On cubic forms permitting composition (1959) (7)
On a class of noncommutative Jordan algebras. (1966) (6)
Restricted noncommutative Jordan algebras of characteristic $p$ (1958) (6)
Invariant forms on central simple structurable algebras (1989) (6)
On a construction for division algebras of order 16 (1945) (6)
Trace forms for structurable algebras (1989) (5)
On a class of quadratic algebras (1962) (4)
A generalization of a theorem of Albert (1953) (3)
The Casimir operation for alternative algebras (1953) (3)
A Generalization of the Algebra of Color, II (1993) (3)
Nilpotence of the radical of a structurable algebra (1986) (3)
Regular ArticleA Generalization of the Algebra of Color (1993) (2)
A Remark on Finite Simple Rings (1953) (2)
Concerning automorphisms of non-associative algebras (1947) (2)
The Annual meeting in Rochester (1957) (2)
Simple Noncommutative Jordan Algebras Satisfying ([x, y], y, y) = 0 (1994) (1)
STRUCTURE AND REPRESENTATION OF NONASSOCIATIVE ALGEBRAS 1 (2007) (1)
A Generalization of an Algebra of Chevalley (2000) (1)
On semialternative algebras (1992) (1)
On the Simplicity of the Lie Algebras E7 and E8 (1966) (1)
The October meeting in Cambridge (1957) (0)
The February meeting in New York (1955) (0)
Review: G. B. Seligman, Modular Lie algebras (1971) (0)
The October meeting in College Park (1956) (0)
The Summer meeting in Cambridge (1958) (0)
How Ohio is solving the alfalfa dust problem. (1958) (0)
The October meeting in Washington (1958) (0)
THE WEDDERBURN PRINCIPAL THEOREM FOR ALTERNATIVE (2007) (0)
The Summer meeting in University Park (1957) (0)
THE SUMMER MEETING IN ANN ARBOR (2007) (0)
The February meeting in New Haven (1957) (0)
The November Meeting of the Philadelphia Section (1953) (0)
The annual meeting in Pittsburgh (1955) (0)
Over 600 people registered for the meeting , including the following 409 members of the Society : (2007) (0)
The April meeting in Brooklyn (1955) (0)
Equivalence in a class of division algebras of order 16 (1946) (0)
Review: Nathan Jacobson, Structure and Representations of Jordan Algebras (1973) (0)
The October meeting in Princeton (1959) (0)

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