An Appreciation of the Work of Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1998)
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I I Sammy beer.1 I remember him best from a conference at Kazimierz, Poland, in . He was in fine form, but my impression was that he was in Poland then more for the memories than for the mathematics. Sammy grew up and reached mathematical maturity in Poland. He arrived in the United States on April , , when he was years old, escaping World War II. His parents, who were Jewish, stayed in Warsaw, and he exchanged leers with them until they were taken to a death camp by the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw. It is hard for the young, and in this context I include myself,2 to even imagine what things were like when Sammy pulled up his roots. Already in Poland, Sammy was a well established mathematician. ere is a complete Bibliography of his work through in [50]3, and I was surprised to find that he had wrien papers before leaving Poland.4 Due to lack of time and energy, I have not aempted to read them at all carefully, so my appreciation of Sammy’s work will begin with his publications aer his arrival in the United States.5 e last talk that Sammy gave in pre-war Poland was on the ideas of obstruction theory. He published a preliminary version of this in [7] and then updated it as the first paper he published aer arriving in the U.S. ([8]).
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Samuel Eilenberg 1913--1998
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