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Eric Mark Friedlander (born January 7, 1944 in Santurce,
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) is an American
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who is working in
algebraic topology Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariants that classify topological spaces up to homeomorphism, though usually most classify ...
, algebraic geometry,
algebraic K-theory Algebraic ''K''-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic objects are assigned objects called ''K''-groups. These are groups in the sense ...
and
representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...
. Friedlander graduated from Swarthmore College with bachelor's degree in 1965 and in 1970 received a
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from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
, under the supervision of
Michael Artin Michael Artin (; born 28 June 1934) is a German-American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
: a lecturer in 1971 and assistant professor in 1972. From 1973 to 1974, he was, through the US exchange program, at France, in particular at the
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques The Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS; English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies) is a French research institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. It is located in Bures-sur-Yvette, jus ...
. In 1975, he became an associate professor and in 1980 a professor at
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, where he was a chairman of the mathematics department from 1987 to 1990 and from 1999 to 2003. In 1999, he became Henry S. Noyes Professor of mathematics. As of 2008, he is Dean's Professor at the
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. In 1981 and from 1985 to 1986, he was at the
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in Princeton, New Jersey. He received the
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, while at the University of Heidelberg, from 1996 to 1998. He was also a visiting scholar and visiting professor at ETH Zurich, at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in
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, at the
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, in Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, at Brown University, the
Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, and at the
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. Since 2000, he has been on the Board of Trustees of the
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. Friedlander is a co-editor of the ''
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''. In 1998, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in
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(''Geometry of infinitesimal group schemes''). In 2012 he became a fellow of the
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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-11-23. Friedlander is married to another mathematician, Susan Friedlander. Among his students is David A. Cox.


Works

*With
Andrei Suslin Andrei Suslin (russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Су́слин, sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He was a Trustee ...
and
Vladimir Voevodsky Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky (, russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Воево́дский; 4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic va ...
, ''Cycles, Transfers and Motivic Homology Theories,'' Annals of mathematical studies, Princeton University Press 2000 *With Barry Mazur, ''Filtration on the Homology of Algebraic Varieties,'' memoir of the AMS, 1994 *''Etale Homotopy of Simplicial Schemes,'' Annals of mathematical studies, Princeton University Press 1982 *Editor with Daniel Grayson, ''Handbook of K-Theory,'' 2 volumes, Springer Verlag 2005 *Editor with Spencer j. Bloch, R. k. Dennis, M.: ''Applications of algebraic K-theory to algebraic geometry and number theory,'' contemporary mathematics 55, 1986 *Editor with M. Stone, ''Algebraic K-theory'' (Evanston 1980), Springer Verlag, lecture notes in mathematics 854, 1981 *Editor with Mark Mahowald, ''Topology and representation theory, contemporary mathematics,'' volume 158, American Mathematical Society, 1994 *With
Charles Weibel Charles Alexander Weibel (born October 28, 1950 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American mathematician working on algebraic K-theory, algebraic geometry and homological algebra. Weibel studied physics and mathematics at the University of Michigan, ...
, ''An overview over algebraic K-theory, in Algebraic K-theory and its applications,'' World Scientific 1999, pp. 1–119 (1997 Trieste of lecture notes)


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