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Richard Swan

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American mathematician

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1933 · age 92
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Richard Gordon Swan is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre-Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules, and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group.

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1970Cole Prize in Algebra

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Richard Gordon Swan is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre-Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules, and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group. His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory.

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Born 1933 · age 92
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