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Richard Swan

American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1933 · age 92

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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Awards

Cole Prize in Algebra1970

About this person

His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1933 · age 92