Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia University and Saunders Mac Lane of the University of Chicago developed category theory in the 1940s to build a bridge between abstract algebra (the generalization of ...

The categorical perspective emerged in mathematics in 1945 when Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane published their radical paper, “General Theory of Natural Equivalences.” It proposed a deeply ...

For a more detailed perusal of the New York museum’s collection of Kashmiri artefacts, we split their collection into those from the ‘gifts’ of the mathematician Samuel Eilenberg and the rest.

Saunders Mac Lane was the joint creator - with Samuel Eilenberg - of the subject of category theory, which permanently changed the way in which mathematicians view the foundations of their subject.

Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent. Daniel Hoffmann is a Samuel Eilenberg Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. His research interests are model theory, Galois theory, difference and differential algebra ...