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Maxwell Alexander Rosenlicht (April 15, 1924 – January 22, 1999) was an American mathematician known for works in algebraic geometry, algebraic groups and differential algebra.
Rosenlicht went to school in Brooklyn (Erasmus High School) and studied at Columbia University (B.A. 1947) and at Harvard University, where he studied under Zariski and was awarded in 1950 his doctorate (on an Algebraic Curve Equivalence Concepts). In 1952 he went to Northwestern University. Until his retirement in 1991 he was a professor at Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor in Mexico City, IHÉS, Rome, Leiden and Harvard.
In 1960 he shared the Cole Prize in algebra with Serge Lang for his work on generalized Jacobian varieties. He also studied the algorithmic algebraic theory of integration.
Rosenlicht was a Fulbright Fellow and 1954 Guggenheim Fellow.
He died of neurological disease on a trip to Hawaii. Rosenlicht married in 1954 and had four children.
Publications
- "Liouville's Theorem on Functions with Elementary integral". Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 24 (1): 153–161. 1968. doi:10.2140/pjm.1968.24.153.
- Introduction to Analysis. Glenview: Scott, Foresman. 1968.
- "Integration in Finite Terms". American Mathematical Monthly. 79: 963–972. 1972. doi:10.2307/2318066.