Robert Wayne Thomason

Robert Wayne Thomason (5 November 1952 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. – 5 November 1995, Paris, France)[1] was an American mathematician who worked on algebraic K-theory. His results include a proof that all infinite loop space machines are in some sense equivalent, and progress on the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture.

Thomason did his undergraduate studies at Michigan State University, graduating with a B.S. in mathematics in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1977, under the supervision of John Moore. From 1977 to 1979 he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1979 to 1982 he was a Dickson Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.[2] After spending a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, he was appointed as faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1983.

Thomason suffered from diabetes; in early November 1995, just shy of his 43rd birthday, he went into diabetic shock and died in his apartment in Paris.[2]

Publications
  • May, J. Peter; Thomason, R. (1978), "The uniqueness of infinite loop space machines", Topology. An International Journal of Mathematics, 17 (3): 205–224, doi:10.1016/0040-9383(78)90026-5, ISSN 0040-9383, MR 0508885
  • Thomason, Robert W. (1985), "Algebraic K-theory and étale cohomology", Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Quatrième Série, 18 (3): 437–552, doi:10.24033/asens.1495, ISSN 0012-9593, MR 0826102 Erratum
  • Thomason, Robert W.; Trobaugh, Thomas (1990), "Higher algebraic K-theory of schemes and of derived categories", The Grothendieck Festschrift, Vol. III, Progr. Math., 88, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, pp. 247–435, doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-4576-2_10, ISBN 978-0-8176-3487-2, MR 1106918
  • Thomason, Robert W. (1991), "The local to global principle in algebraic K-theory", in Satake, Ichirô (ed.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Kyoto, 1990), Tokyo: Math. Soc. Japan, pp. 381–394, ISBN 978-4-431-70047-0, MR 1159226
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References
  1. EDITORIAL NOTICE: ROBERT W. THOMASON, 1952-1995
  2. Weibel, Charles A. (1996), "Robert W. Thomason (1952–1995)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 43 (8): 860–862, ISSN 0002-9920
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