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Andrew Gleason

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American mathematician (1921-2008)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1921 to 2008 · aged 86
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Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels.

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1996Gung and Hu Award
1956Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1952Newcomb Cleveland Prize
1940Putnam Fellow

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Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Gleason's theorem in quantum logic and the Greenwood-Gleason graph, an important example in Ramsey theory, are named for him.

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United States
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Academics
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deceased
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Lived 1921 to 2008 · aged 86
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