Donald Steven Passman (born March 28, 1940, in New York City) is an American mathematician, specializing in ring theory,

group theory In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as group (mathematics), groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as ring (mathematics), rings, field ( ...

, and Lie algebra theory.

Biography

After attending the

Bronx High School of Science The Bronx High School of Science is a State school, public Specialized high schools in New York City, specialized high school in the Bronx in New York City. It is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Admission to Bronx Science ...

, Passman matriculated at the

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United St ...

, where he graduated with B.S. in 1960. He then became a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard University, where he graduated with M.A. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1964. His doctoral dissertation was written under the supervision of

Richard Brauer Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation t ...

. Passman was an assistant professor from 1964 to 1966 at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) and from 1966 to 1969 at Yale University. At the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

, he was from 1969 to 1971 an associate professor, from 1971 to 1995 a full professor, and from 1995 to 2011 the Richard Brauer Professor of Mathematics. In 2011 he retired as professor emeritus. Passman has written 7 books and more than 180 research publications. He has given over 70 invited addresses, not only in North America but also in Europe, Brazil, Israel, and Turkey. He has been an editor for several mathematical journals, including the ''International Journal of Mathematics, Game Theory and Algebra'' (1991–2013), ''Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie'' (1993–2013), ''Algebras and Representation Theory'' (2001–2011), and the ''Journal of Algebra and its Applications'' (2001–2016). In 1963 Passman married Marjorie Mednick. They have two children, Barbara and Jonathan, and five grandchildren, Samuel, Rebecca, Abraham, Jordan and Eve.

Awards and honors

* 1977 —

Lester R. Ford Award ''The American Mathematical Monthly'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics. It was established by Benjamin Finkel in 1894 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America. It is an expositor ...

for 1976 article ''What is a group ring?'' * 1989 — Plenary speaker, Canadian Math Society summer meeting, Windsor Ontario, June 1989 * 2000 — Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics,

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* 2005 — Conference, held June 10–12 2005 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in honor of Donald S. Passman * 2012 — elected a 2013 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Books

* Permutation Groups, Benjamin, New York, (1968)
pbk edition, Dover, Mineola, (2012)
* Infinite Group Rings, Marcel Dekker, New York, (1971). * The Algebraic Structure of Group Rings, Wiley-Interscience, New York (1977), rieger, Malabar, (1985)br>pbk edition, Dover, Mineola, (2011)
* Group rings, Crossed Products and Galois Theory, CBMS Conference Notes, AMS, Providence, 1986. * Infinite Crossed Products, Academic Press, Boston, (1989),
* A Course in Ring Theory, Wadsworth, Pacific Grove, (1991)

* Lectures on Linear Algebra, World Scientific, Singapore, (2022)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Passman, Donald S. 1940 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Algebraists Group theorists Fellows of the American Mathematical Society The Bronx High School of Science alumni Harvard University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty