David Kent Harrison

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David Kent Harrison
Born6 April1931
Massachusetts
Died21 December1999
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Alma mater Princeton University
Occupation mathematician
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship



David Kent Harrison (6 April 1931, Massachusetts – 21 December 1999, Barnstable, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, specializing in algebra, particularly homological algebra and valuation theory.

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He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1957; his dissertation, titled On torsion free abelian groups, was written under the supervision of Emil Artin. [1]

Harrison was a faculty member from 1959 to 1963 at the University of Pennsylvania [2] and from 1963 to 1993 at the University of Oregon, retiring there as professor emeritus in 1993. [3]

He developed a commutative cohomology theory for commutative algebras. [4] Along with his colleague Marie A. Vitulli, he developed a unified valuation theory for rings with zero divisors that generalized both Krull and Archimedean valuations. [5]

He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1963–1964. [6] He supervised 28 doctoral students including Joel Cunningham. [1] Ann Hill Harrison endowed the Harrison Memory Award for outstanding mathematical students at the University of Oregon. [3] He is survived by his son, composer and pianist Michael Harrison, a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 2018–2019, [7] and his daughter Jo Ellen Harrison.

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References

  1. 1 2 David Kent Harrison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Faculty History". Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
  3. 1 2 "Former Faculty". Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon.
  4. Harrison, D. K. (1962). "Commutative Algebras and Cohomology". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 104 (2): 191–204. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1962-0142607-6 . MR   0142607 . Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  5. Harrison, D. K.; Vitulli, Marie A. (1989). "V-Valuations of a Commutative Ring I". J. Algebra. 65 (3): 264–292. doi: 10.1016/0021-8693(89)90305-0 . MR   1024992.
  6. "David Kent Harrison". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  7. "Michael Harrison". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.