Sheldon Axler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sheldon Axler

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1949

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Sheldon Jay Axler (born 6 November 1949, Philadelphia) is an American mathematician, professor of mathematics and the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University.
He has made contributions to mathematics education, publishing several mathematics textbooks. He went to Palmetto High School at Miami, Florida (1967).
He obtained his AB in mathematics with highest honors at Princeton University (1971) and his Ph.D.
in mathematics, under professor Donald Sarason, from the University of California, Berkeley (1975, Dissertation: "Subalgebras of L 8 {\displaystyle L^{\infty }} ").
As a postdoc he was a C.
L.
E.
Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught for many years and became a Full Professor at Michigan State University.
In 1997 Axler moved to San Francisco State University where he became the Chair of the Mathematics Department. Axler received the Lester R.
Ford Award for expository writing in 1996 from the Mathematical Association of America.
In the awarded paper, "Down With Determinants!", Axler shows "how linear algebra can be done better without determinants".
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.He was an Associate Editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and the Editor-in-Chief of the Mathematical Intelligencer. Axler's book Linear Algebra Done Right eschews the use of determinants, in favor of other methods.

George Bergman (1943–)

	Alternative names	George M. Bergman
	Description	American university teacher
	Date of birth	22 July 1943
	Location of birth	Brooklyn
	Authority control	: Q16198978 VIAF: 36173960 ISNI: 0000 0001 1054 507X LCCN: n96003979 MGP: 32848 GND: 172970725 WorldCat