Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford (July 11, 1908 – December 27, 1992) was an American mathematician born in St. Louis, Missouri who is known for Clifford theory and for his work on semigroups. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale and his PhD at Caltech, and worked at MIT, Johns Hopkins (as Associate Professor),[1] and later, in 1955, Tulane University (as Professor of Mathematics and Head of Sophie Newcomb College).[2]
Alfred H. Clifford | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 8, 1908 |
| Died | December 27, 1992 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Clifford theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Group theory, semigroup theory |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study Massachusetts Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Tulane University |
| Thesis | Arithmetic of Ova (1933) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Temple Bell, Morgan Ward |
The Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library at Tulane University is named after him.[3]
Publications
edit- Clifford, A. H. (1937), Representations Induced in an Invariant Subgroup, Annals of Mathematics, 2nd series, 38(3): 533–550, doi:10.2307/1968599, JSTOR 1968599, PMC 1076873, PMID 16588132 George W. Mackie (1976), Theory of Unitary Group Representations, Chicago Mathematics Lecture, ISBN 0-226-50051-9
- Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Preston, Gordon B. (1961), The algebraic theory of semigroups. Vol. I, Mathematical Surveys, No. 7, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0272-4, MR 0132791
- Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Preston, Gordon B. (1967), The algebraic theory of semigroups. Vol. 2, American Mathematical Society
- Clifford, Alfred. H. (1974), The Partial Groupoid of Idempotents of a Regular Semigroup, Tulane University, Department of Mathematics.
- Clifford, Alfred. H. (1974), The Fundamental Representation of a Regular Semigroup, Tulane University, Department of Mathematics.
- Clifford, Alfred. H. (1976), The Free Completely Regular Semigroup as a Set, Tulane Universite, Department of Mathematics.
- Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Edited by Hofmann, Karl H. & Mislove, Michael W. (1996), Semigroup Theory and its Applications: Proceedings of the 1994 Conference Commemorating the Work of Alfried H. Clifford. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521576697
References
edit- ^ "Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford | tulane". sse.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ "The Clifford Lectures | tulane". sse.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ "Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library". sse.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
- Hofmann, Karl H.; Mislove, Michael W., eds. (1996), Semigroup theory and its applications. Proceedings of the conference commemorating the work of Alfred H. Clifford held at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 1994, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 231, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-57669-5
External links
edit- Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alfred H. Clifford", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Alfred H. Clifford at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Alfred H. Clifford at Find a Grave
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