Andrew Gleason
American mathematician (1921-2008) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 86
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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Australia, 1988
The Sphinx, 2001!["With the inevitable clipboard under his arm",[15] 1989](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/GleasonAndrewMattei_HorseAndClipboard.jpg/330px-GleasonAndrewMattei_HorseAndClipboard.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
"With the inevitable clipboard under his arm",[15] 1989
Report (1945) by Gleason and colleagues regarding the German Enigma. "The recovery of wiring from a depth can be a very interesting problem. Let the reader surround himself with pleasant working conditions and try it."
Journal entry (1947): "July 10. We hung out the clothes to dry this morning and Charles washed the car. I did a little work on the Hilbert fifth."Awards
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Gleason's theorem in quantum logic and the Greenwood-Gleason graph, an important example in Ramsey theory, are named for him.
