19 Facts About Paul Cohn

Paul Cohn's work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings.

Paul Cohn's father fought in the German army in World War I; he was wounded several times and awarded the Iron Cross.

Paul Cohn was released after four months but told to emigrate.

Paul Cohn went to Britain in May 1939 on the Kindertransport to work on a chicken farm, and never saw his parents again.

Paul Cohn passed the Cambridge Scholarship Examination, and won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge.

Paul Cohn then spent a year as a Charge de Recherches at the University of Nancy.

Paul Cohn was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1964 and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1967.

Paul Cohn held several visiting professorships, in America, Paris, Delhi, Canada, Haifa and Bielefeld.

Paul Cohn was awarded the Lester R Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1972 and the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1974.

Paul Cohn moved to University College London in 1984, together with the two other experts at Bedford on ring theory, Bill Stephenson and Warren Dicks.

Paul Cohn became Astor Professor of Mathematics there in 1986.

Paul Cohn continued to be a visiting professor, for example to the University of Alberta in 1986 and to Bar Ilan University in 1987.

Paul Cohn retired in 1989, but remained active as professor emeritus and honorary research fellow until his death.

Paul Cohn worked in many areas of algebra, mainly in non-commutative ring theory.

In 1957 Paul Cohn published his first book, Lie Groups, on groups that are analytic manifolds: Lie groups.

Paul Cohn included all of his own published results on the embedding of rings into skew fields.

Paul Cohn wrote a subsequent revised iteration of the first volume as Classical Algebra as a more "user friendly" version for undergraduates ; this book includes a few selected topics from volumes II and III of Algebra.

Paul Cohn's recreation was etymology and language in all its forms.

Paul Cohn married Deirdre Sharon in 1958, and they had two daughters.