Richard Swan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Swan

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1933

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Richard Gordon Swan (; born 1933) is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre–Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules, and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group.
His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory.