Robert Wayne Thomason

Robert Wayne Thomason (5 November 1952 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. – November 1995, Paris, France) was an American mathematician who worked on algebraic K-theory. His results include a proof that all infinite loop space machines are in some sense equivalent, and progress on the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture.

He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1977, under the supervision of John Moore. From 1977 to 1979 he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1979 to 1982 he was a Dickson Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.^[1]

Thomason suffered from diabetes; in early November 1995, just his shy of 43rd birthday, he went into diabetic shock and died in his apartment in Paris.^[1]

Publications

• May, J. Peter; Thomason, R. (1978), "The uniqueness of infinite loop space machines", Topology. An International Journal of Mathematics, 17 (3): 205–224, doi:10.1016/0040-9383(78)90026-5, ISSN 0040-9383, MR 0508885
• Thomason, Robert W. (1985), "Algebraic K-theory and étale cohomology", Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Quatrième Série, 18 (3): 437–552, ISSN 0012-9593, MR 0826102 Erratum
• Thomason, Robert W.; Trobaugh, Thomas (1990), "Higher algebraic K-theory of schemes and of derived categories", The Grothendieck Festschrift, Vol. III, Progr. Math., 88, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, pp. 247–435, doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-4576-2_10, ISBN 978-0-8176-3487-2, MR 1106918
• Thomason, Robert W. (1991), "The local to global principle in algebraic K-theory", in Satake, Ichirô, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Kyoto, 1990), Tokyo: Math. Soc. Japan, pp. 381–394, ISBN 978-4-431-70047-0, MR 1159226

References

• Bak, Anthony; Weibel, Charles (1997), "A tribute to Robert Wayne Thomason (1952–1995)", K-Theory, 12 (1): 1–2, doi:10.1023/A:1007709906247, ISSN 0920-3036, MR 1466621
• Snaith, Victor (1997), "Robert Wayne Thomason. 1952–1995", Algebraic K-theory (Toronto, ON, 1996), Fields Inst. Commun., 16, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. ix–xiii, MR 1466969
• Weibel, Charles A. (1997), "The mathematical enterprises of Robert Thomason", American Mathematical Society. Bulletin. New Series, 34 (1): 1–13, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00707-6, ISSN 0002-9904, MR 1401423

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Robert Wayne Thomason", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• Robert Wayne Thomason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project