Richard Earl Block
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American mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Earl Block is a mathematician at the University of California, Riverside who works on Lie algebras over fieldss of prime characteristic. Block earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956 under the supervision of Abraham Adrian Albert. He was the first to discover the central extension of the Witt algebra that gives the Virasoro algebra, though his discovery went unnoticed for many years. With Robert Lee Wilson he classified the simple Lie algebras over "well behaved" fields of finite characteristic.
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