- John Coleman Moore
John Coleman Moore is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from
Brown University under the supervision ofGeorge W. Whitehead . His most heavily cited paper is onHopf algebra s, co-authored withJohn Milnor . [citation | last1 = Milnor | first1 = John W. | last2 = Moore | first2 = John C. | title = On the structure of Hopf algebras | journal = Annals of Mathematics | volume = 81 | issue = 2 | year = 1965 | pages = 211–264 | url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-486X(196503)2%3A81%3A2%3C211%3AOTSOHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 | doi = 10.2307/1970615.] As a faculty member atPrinceton University , he advised 23 students and is the academic ancestor of 582 mathematicians. [MathGenealogy|id=4350] In 1983, a conference onK-theory was held at Princeton in honor of his 60th birthday. [citation | last = Browder | first = William | title = Algebraic Topology and Algebraic K-Theory: Proceedings of a Conference, October 24-28, 1983 at Princeton University, Dedicated to John C. Moore on His 60th Birthday | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 1987 | isbn = 0691084262.] TheBorel-Moore homology andEilenberg-Moore spectral sequence are named after him. [citation|last=Rusin|first=Dave|url=http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/98/MSC.names|title=People whose names are embedded in Math Subject Classifcation|year=1998. Updated February 2005.]References
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