Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg
Samuel Eilenberg (1970)
Born	(1913-09-30)September 30, 1913 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	January 30, 1998(1998-01-30) (aged 84) New York City, United States
Citizenship	Russian, Polish, American
Alma mater	University of Warsaw
Known for	Acyclic model Category theory X-machine Weak dimension Projective module Shuffle algebra Simplicial set Standard complex Eilenberg's obstruction theory Eilenberg swindle Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture Eilenberg–Ganea theorem Eilenberg–MacLane space Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence Eilenberg–Niven theorem Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms Eilenberg–Zilber theorem Cartan–Eilenberg resolution Chevalley–Eilenberg complex
Awards	Wolf Prize (1986) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1987)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Columbia University
Thesis	On the Topological Applications of Maps onto a Circle  (1936)
Doctoral advisors	Kazimierz Kuratowski Karol Borsuk
Doctoral students	Jonathan Beck David Buchsbaum Martin Golumbic Daniel Kan William Lawvere Ramaiyengar Sridharan Myles Tierney

Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra.