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Samuel Eilenberg

Overview

Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra.

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Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of mathematics.

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