J. Peter May

Jon Peter May (born September 16, 1939 in New York) is an American mathematician working in the fields of algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra. He is known, in particular, for the May spectral sequence and for coining the term operad. The word "operad" was created by May as a portmanteau of "operations" and "monad" (and also because his mother was an opera singer).[1]

J. Peter May
Born (1939-09-16) September 16, 1939
New York
Alma materSwarthmore College
Princeton University
Known forMay spectral sequence,
coining the term "operad"
AwardsFellow of the AMS
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University
University of Chicago
ThesisThe cohomology of restricted Lie algebras and of Hopf algebras: Application to the Steenrod algebra (1964)
Doctoral advisorJohn Moore
Doctoral studentsMark Behrens, Andrew Blumberg, Fred Cohen, Nick Gurski, Nick Kuhn, Ib Madsen, Emily Riehl, Mike Shulman, Zhouli Xu
Websitewww.math.uchicago.edu/~may

Education and career

May received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1960 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Princeton University in 1964.[2] His thesis, written under the direction of John Moore, was titled The cohomology of restricted Lie algebras and of Hopf algebras: Application to the Steenrod algebra.

From 1964 to 1967, May taught at Yale University. He has been a faculty member at the University of Chicago since 1967, and a professor since 1970.

Awards

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3] He has advised over 60 doctoral students, including Mark Behrens, Andrew Blumberg, Frederick Cohen, Ib Madsen, Emily Riehl, Michael Shulman, and Zhouli Xu.[2]

References
  1. May, J. Peter. "Operads, Algebras, and Modules" (PDF). math.uchicago.edu. p. 2. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  2. J. Peter May at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-02.


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