Meyer Bockstein (also Меер Феликсович Бокштейн or Meer Feliksovich Bokshtein or Bokstein) (4 October 1913 to 2 May 1990) was a

topologist Topology (from the Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without ...

from

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

who introduced the

Bockstein homomorphism In homological algebra, the Bockstein homomorphism, introduced by , is a connecting homomorphism associated with a short exact sequence :0 \to P \to Q \to R \to 0 of abelian groups, when they are introduced as coefficients into a chain complex ...

. The

Bockstein spectral sequence In mathematics, the Bockstein spectral sequence is a spectral sequence relating the homology with mod ''p'' coefficients and the homology reduced mod ''p''. It is named after Meyer Bockstein. Definition Let ''C'' be a chain complex of ...

is named after him.

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Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
(Entry 791) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bockstein, Meyer F. Topologists 1913 births 1990 deaths Mathematicians from Moscow Soviet mathematicians