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Allen B. Altman

Faculty Emeritus in Mathematics

 

Biography

BS, Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa

MS, PhD, Columbia University

Dr. Altman has taught at the University of California at San Diego; the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, where he helped to establish the mathematics program; MIT; the University of Oslo (Norway); the University of Pernambuco (Brazil); and the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He has been awarded Fulbright, National Science Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. Dr. Altman’s publications include regular contributions to Mathematical Reviews and articles in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Communications in Algebra, Advances in Mathematics, Compositio Math­ematica, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, and American Journal of Mathematics. He has been editor of Revista Matemática Ibero­americana, contributor to the collections Real and Complex Singularities, and The Grothendieck Festschrift (Birkhauser, 1990), and author with S. Kleiman of the book Introduction to Grothendieck Duality Theory (Springer-Verlag, 1970). (1986–2008)