Irving Kaplansky

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Algebra

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

1. William C. Jagy and Irving Kaplansky. Indefinite binary quadratic forms with Markov ratio exceeding 9. Illinois J. Math., 47(1-2):305-316, 2003. Special issue in honor of Reinhold Baer (1902-1979).
2. Irving Kaplansky. Linear algebra and geometry. Dover Publications Inc., Mineola, NY, revised edition, 2003. A second course.
3. Irving Kaplansky. The forms x+32y 2 and x+64y 2. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 131(7):2299-2300, 2003.
4. Georgia Benkart, Irving Kaplansky, Kevin McCrimmon, David J. Saltman, and George B. Seligman. Nathan Jacobson (1910-1999). Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 47(9):1061-1071, 2000.
5. Irving Kaplansky. A salute to Euler and Dickson on the occasion of Hy's 65th birthday. In Algebra, K-theory, groups, and education (New York, 1997), volume 243 of Contemp. Math., pages 79-81. Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1999.