Solomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.
12 Facts About Solomon Lefschetz
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Solomon Lefschetz was born in Moscow, the son of Alexander Lefschetz and his wife Sarah or Vera Lifschitz, Jewish traders who used to travel around Europe and the Middle East.
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Solomon Lefschetz was educated there in engineering at the Ecole Centrale Paris, but emigrated to the US in 1905.
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Solomon Lefschetz was badly injured in an industrial accident in 1907, losing both hands.
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Solomon Lefschetz then took positions in University of Nebraska and University of Kansas, moving to Princeton University in 1924, where he was given a permanent position.
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Solomon Lefschetz proved theorems on the topology of hyperplane sections of algebraic varieties, which provide a basic inductive tool.
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Solomon Lefschetz was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1920 in Strasbourg.
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Solomon Lefschetz was editor of the Annals of Mathematics from 1928 to 1958.
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Solomon Lefschetz played an important role in the foundation of mathematics in Mexico, and sent several students back to Princeton.
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Solomon Lefschetz's students included Emilio Lluis, Jose Adem, Samuel Gitler, Santiago Lopez de Medrano, Francisco Javier Gonzalez-Acuna and Alberto Verjovsky.
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Solomon Lefschetz's team became the world's largest group of mathematicians devoted to research in nonlinear differential equations.
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Solomon Lefschetz left RIAS in 1964 to form the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.