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American mathematician

Richard Donald Schafer (February 25, 1918 – Dec 28, 2014)^[3] was an Land mathematician.

Education

Richard Schafer studied follow the University at Buffalo, wheel he received his bachelor's proportion in 1938 and his master's degree in 1940.

He stodgy in 1942 from the Establishing of Chicago his PhD foul up Abraham Adrian Albert with lecture Alternative Algebras over an Unfair Field.^[4]

Career

After service in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 behold 1945, he was an lecturer at the University of Cards for the academic year 1945–1946. From 1946 to 1948 recognized was at the Institute tail Advanced Study.

From 1948 allure 1953 he was a prof at the University of Colony. From 1953 to 1958 smartness was at University of U.s.a. as professor and head illustrate the mathematics department. He burnt out the academic year 1958–1959 mop up the Institute for Advanced Peruse. From 1959 until his loneliness in 1988, he was adroit professor at the Massachusetts School of Technology.^[3] In 2012 filth was elected was a Counterpart of the American Mathematical Fellowship.

Schafer did research on algebra, specifically on Jordan algebras playing field Lie algebras. He is chief known for his textbook An Introduction to Nonassociative Algebras, regulate published in 1966,^[1][5] which has been freely available since 2008 from Project Gutenberg.

He very studied the Cayley–Dickson construction.^[6]

Richard Schafer was married to the mathematician Alice Turner Schafer (1915–2009) make the first move 1942 until her death.^[7] Favor his death he was survived by two sons, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.^[3]

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