Hyman Bass is an American mathematician known for his work in algebra and in mathematics education. He was born on 5 October 1932 in Houston, Texas, the seventh of eight children of parents who had immigrated from Lithuania. He gives his research interests as algebraic K-theory, number theory, group theory using geometric methods, and algebraic geometry, and to many people he is best known for his classic text Algebraic K-theory, published in 1968. He spent the year 1968 to 1969 at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris and served as chair of the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University from 1975 to 1979.
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Hyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education.
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but let us note that he himself gives his research interests as algebraic K-theory; number theory; group theory ( geometric methods ) ; and algebraic geometry.
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Hyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education.
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The conjecture was proposed by Hyman Bass.
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. The conjecture is named for Hyman Bass and Daniel Quillen, who formulated the conjecture.
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