10 Facts About Gerhard Hochschild

Gerhard Paul Hochschild was a German-born American mathematician who worked on Lie groups, algebraic groups, homological algebra and algebraic number theory.

Gerhard Hochschild's father was a patent attorney who had an engineering degree.

In 1936, Gerhard Hochschild earned a BS degree in mathematics from University of Cape Town in Union of South Africa.

In 1937, Gerhard Hochschild earned a MS degree in mathematics from University of Cape Town.

In 1941, Gerhard Hochschild earned his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University.

Gerhard Hochschild completed his thesis in 1941 at Princeton University with Claude Chevalley on Semisimple Algebras and Generalized Derivations.

Gerhard Hochschild was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Gerhard Hochschild introduced Gerhard Hochschild cohomology, a cohomology theory for algebras, which classifies deformations of algebras.

In 1979 Hochschild was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1980 he was awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS.

In 1982, Gerhard Hochschild retired but continued teaching part-time until 1985.