Alfred H. Clifford

Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford (July 11, 1908 – December 27, 1992) was an American mathematician born in St. Louis, Missouri who is known for Clifford theory and for his work on semigroups. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale and his PhD at Caltech, and worked at MIT, Johns Hopkins, and later Tulane University. The Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library at Tulane University is named after him.

Alfred H. Clifford
Born(1908-07-08)July 8, 1908
DiedDecember 27, 1992(1992-12-27) (aged 84)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
California Institute of Technology
Known forClifford theory
Scientific career
FieldsGroup theory, semigroup theory
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Tulane University
ThesisArithmetic of Ova (1933)
Doctoral advisorEric Temple Bell, Morgan Ward

Publications

  • Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Preston, Gordon B. (1961), The algebraic theory of semigroups. Vol. I, Mathematical Surveys, No. 7, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0272-4, MR 0132791

References

  • Hofmann, Karl H.; Mislove, Michael W., eds. (1996), Semigroup theory and its applications. Proceedings of the conference commemorating the work of Alfred H. Clifford held at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 1994, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 231, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-57669-5


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