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Saunders Mac Lane

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American mathematician

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Saunders Mac Lane
Mathematics
#13
World Rank
#62
Historical Rank
#2
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Algebra
#1
World Rank
#4
Historical Rank
#1
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Measure Theory
#28
World Rank
#52
Historical Rank
#16
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Early life and education Mac Lane was born in Norwich, Connecticut, near where his family lived in Taftville. He was christened "Leslie Saunders MacLane", but "Leslie" fell into disuse because his parents, Donald MacLane and Winifred Saunders, came to dislike it. He began inserting a space into his surname because his first wife found it difficult to type the name without a space. He was the oldest of three brothers; one of his brothers, Gerald MacLane, also became a mathematics professor at Rice University and Purdue University. Another sister died as a baby. His father and grandfather were both ministers; his grandfather had been a Presbyterian, but was kicked out of the church for believing in evolution, and his father was a Congregationalist. His mother, Winifred, studied at Mount Holyoke College and taught English, Latin, and mathematics.

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Saunders Mac Lane's Published Works

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