Daniel Quillen Scientist

Daniel Gray "Dan" Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.From 1984 to 2006, he was the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is renowned for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.

Personal facts

Birth dateJune 22, 1940
Birth place
Orange New Jersey
Nationality
United States
Date of deathApril 30, 2011
Place of death
North Florida

Search

Scientist

awards
Fields Medal
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Cole Prize
doctoral advisor
Field of study
Mathematics

Daniel Quillen on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.ams.org/notices/201210/rtx121001392p.pdf