Jim Stasheff belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Jim Stasheff as American mathematician.
Jim Stasheff was born at New York City in 1936. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at University of Oxford and Princeton University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Notre Dame and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Held posts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Notre Dame and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
