TSIT YUEN LAM
Office: 871 Evans Hall
Phone Number: (510) 642-4378
Email Address:
lam@math.berkeley.edu
Fax Number: (510) 642-8204
Berkeley Math Department
MSRI
Courses:
Papers on Web Page:
Clean matrices and unit-regular matrices (2003)
dvi ps
Q-duo rings and stable range descent (2003) dvi
ps
Corner ring theory, I (2003) dvi ps
Crash course on stable range and cancellation (2003) dvi ps
Subgroups of index p (2003) dvi ps
Linkage of quaternion algebras (2002) dvi ps
Hamilton's quaternions (2002) dvi ps
Projectives over Prüfer Rings (2002) dvi ps
Wedderburn Polynomials, I (2002) dvi
ps
Finite subgroups of division rings (2001) dvi ps
Polytopes (2001) dvi ps
Irreducible Polynomials (2001) dvi ps
Orders and Maximal Orders (2001) dvi
ps
Ordered Fields (2001) dvi
ps
Local Rings (2001) dvi
ps
Semilocal Rings (2001) dvi ps
Ore Extensions (2000) dvi
ps
Notices Article, Part I (1998) dvi
ps
Notices Article, Part II (1998) dvi
ps
Nonsingular Rings (Jain, Lam, Leroy, 1998) dvi ps
Curriculum Vitae dvi ps
Books:
(1) The Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Forms}, xi+343 pp., Lecture Notes Series in Mathematics,
Benjamin/Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1973. (Reprinted with Revisions: 1980.)
(2) Serre's Conjecture, xv+227 pp., Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 635, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1978.
(3)
Orderings, Valuations, and Quadratic Forms, vii+143 pp., CBMS Regional Conference Series in
Mathematics, Vol. 52, American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 1983. (Second Printing: 1996.)
(4)
A First Course in Noncommutative Rings, xix+385 pp., Graduate Texts in
Mathematics, Vol. 131,
Springer-Verlag, 1991. (Second Edition, 2001.)
(5) Recent
Advances in Quadratic Forms and Real Algebraic Geometry (W. Jacob, T. Y. Lam and R. Robson, eds.)
Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 144, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1994.
(6)
Exercises in Classical Ring Theory, Problem Books in
Mathematics, xiii+287 pages, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1995.
(7)
Lectures on Modules and Rings, Graduate Texts in Math., Vol. 189, xxiv+557 pages, Springer-Verlag,
1999.
(8) Modules with isomorphic multiples, and rings with isomorphic matrix rings --- a survey, 71 pages,
Monographie No.~35, L'Enseignement Math., Geneva, Switzerland, 1999.
(9)
Algebra, K-Theory, Groups, and Education on the Occasion of Hyman Bass's 65th Birthday, T. Y. Lam and
A. Magid, eds., Contemp. Math. Vol. 243, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1999.
(10) Exercises in Modules and Rings, Springer-Verlag,
in preparation.
(11) An Introduction to Division Rings, Graduate Texts in Math., in preparation.