Sidney Allen Morris | |
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Born | 1947 (age 77–78) Brisbane, Australia |
Title | Emeritus Professor |
Awards | Lester R. Ford Award (MAA) Outstanding Service Award (ACS) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Flinders University |
Thesis | Varieties of Topological Groups (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Igor Kluvanek |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematics,information technology |
Sub-discipline | Topological groups |
Institutions | La Trobe University (1976-1988) University of New England (1988-1991) University of Wollongong (1991-1997) University of South Australia (1997-2001) Federation University Australia (2001-present) |
Website | www |
Sidney "Sid" Morris (born 1947) is an Emeritus Professor at Federation University Australia who worked in the fields of mathematics and information technology. Before his retirement in 2010,he was a professor at several universities and received the 1987 Lester R. Ford award from the Mathematical Association of America. Morris is a fellow and former vice-president of the Australian Mathematical Society (AMS).
Morris earned a BSc in 1969 from the University of Queensland,Australia and one year later completed a Ph.D. at Flinders University. His dissertation,completed under the supervision of Igor Kluvanek,defined the concept of "variety" among topological groups and proved a result similar to the Stone–Čech compactification. [1]
During his first senior position at La Trobe University,Morris began as an editor for the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society . He then became editor-in-chief of the Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series,a series published by Cambridge University Press. [2]
In 1987,Morris received the Lester R. Ford award from the Mathematical Association of America for the article Numerical Geometry –Numbers for Shapes. [3] [4]
Morris published his first book The Structure of Compact Groups in 1998 with Karl Heinrich Hofmann . [5] He,along with Arthur Jones and Kenneth R. Pearson,published Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities in 2022 as part of Springer's Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series. [6]
Although he is retired,Morris remains an editor for the AMS's Gazette and MDPI's Internation Journal of Topology. [7] [8] He continues to maintain his online book Topology Without Tears,which was initially published in 1985. [9]
Sidney Morris received his rabbinical ordination in 2016 at the age of 68. [10] He has been married to his wife,Elizabeth,for over fifty years. [11]