Past Department Members

David H. Blackwell

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Probability

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Set theory, Recursive functions, Measure theory, Stochastic processes, Game theory, Information theory, Linear programming

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

David Blackwell. The prediction of sequences. Internat. J. Game Theory, 31(2):245-251...

David A. Freedman

TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Probability

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Statistics

Charles B. Morrey Jr.

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Partial differential equations, calculus of variations

Anthony Morse

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Analysis; real function and measure theory

Bjorn Poonen

JOB TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Number Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Computing Néron–Severi groups and cycle class groups, with D. Testa and R. van Luijk, Compositio Math. 151 (2015), 713–734. Undecidable problems: a sampler, pp. 211–241 in Interpreting Gödel: Critical essays, ed. J. Kennedy, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014. Most odd degree hyperelliptic curves have only one rational point, with M...

Angus E. Taylor

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: History of mathematics, functional analysis

Andreas Floer

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Symplectic geometry, nonlinear analysis, topology

Alfred L. Foster

JOB TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Probability

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Statistics

Alfred Tarski

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Logic

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Logic and metamathematics; set theory; measure theory; algebra

Abraham Seidenberg

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra