R. Keith Dennis (born Roger Keith Dennis on March 10, 1944) is a mathematician known for his work in algebraic K-theory and group theory. His whole career has been spent in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University, where he is now Professor Emeritus.
He has been on the Board of Advisors of AIM (The American Institute of Mathematics) since its inception.[1][2]
Education and career
editMathematician Roger Keith Dennis (who goes by Keith Dennis, and publishes as R. Keith Dennis) was born on March 10, 1944 in Vernon, Texas, and grew up on a farm 8 miles north of Quanah, Texas. He graduated from Quanah High School in 1962, and attended Rice University, earning his bachelor's in 1966 and his doctorate in 1970. His thesis on "Presentation for the Elementary Group and the Functor " was done under Stephen M. Gersten.[3] He spent the academic year 1970-1971 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as the first assistant of John Milnor.[4]
Since 1971, he has been in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University, being promoted to full professor in 1981.[5] From 1987 to 1993 he served as the department chair.
From Jan 1995 through Jun 1998, Dennis was Executive Editor of the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematical Reviews (MR).[6] During this period MR designed and began the development of MathSciNet which went online in January of 1996.
In 2013 Dennis was in the inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
Papers
edit- 2023: (with Paul K. Young) Computation of the Scharlau Invariant, I[8]
- 2023: (with Reinhard C. Laubenbacher) Homogeneous Functions and Algebraic K-theory
Books
edit- 1993 (with Benson Farb) Noncommutative Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics Book 144), 20 August 1993, ISBN 978-0-387-94057-1
- 1980 (editor) Algebraic K-Theory. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Oberwolfach, Part 1
References
edit- ^ AIM Advisory Board: Keith Dennis American Institute of Mathematics: The First Decade: 1998-2008, p.44
- ^ AIM Advisory Board: Keith Dennis American Institute of Mathematics: 2024
- ^ R. Keith (Roger) Dennis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Roger Keith Dennis Member: School of Mathematics 9/1970 – 8/1971, IAS
- ^ R. Keith Dennis at Cornell University
- ^ AMS: Executive Editors American Mathematical Society
- ^ Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- ^ Computation of the Scharlau Invariant, I R. Keith Dennis, Paul K. Young, 24 June 24 2023, Cornell University