RARE! Category Theory Pioneer Samuel Eilenberg Hand Signed FDC Dated 1962

  

"Category Theory" Samuel Eilenberg Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1962. 1913 - January 30, 1998 was a Polish-American mathematician who. Kingdom of Poland to a. He spent much of his career as a professor. 1936, where his thesis advisor was.

Eilenberg's main body of. Worked on the axiomatic treatment of. In the process, Eilenberg and Mac Lane. In life he worked mainly in pure category theory, being one of the founders of.

Is a construction applying the. In particular, he introduced a model of computation. And a new prime decomposition algorithm for. Finite state machines in the vein of. Was also a prominent collector of Asian art.

His collection mainly consisted of. Small sculptures and other artifacts from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand. Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Central Asia.

New York staged an exhibition from more than 400 items that Eilenberg had. Donated to the museum, entitled. The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and. Southeast Asian Art From the Samuel Eilenberg Collection.

In reciprocity, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Donated substantially to the endowment of the Samuel Eilenberg Visiting. Professorship in Mathematics at Columbia University.