Jeffrey Brian Remmel

Jeffrey Brian Remmel (October 12, 1948 September 29, 2017) was an American mathematician employed by the University of California, San Diego. At the time of his death he held a distinguished professorship—his title was Distinguished Professor of Mathematics; he also held a position as a professor of computer science.

Personal life Remmel was born on October 12, 1948, in Clintonville, Wisconsin. He died aged 68 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California on September 29, 2017,

Education Remmel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1970. Later, he received two degrees from Cornell University—a Master of Science in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy, also in math (1972 and 1974, respectively).

Career After obtaining his Ph.D.,Efn|One source attests that he had not officially completed his Ph.D. upon joining UC San Diego. and Remmel's more prominent career in combinatorics included over 20 co-authored papers with Sergey Kitaev.

Remmel's work is highly cited in the fields of vector spaces, including computably enumerable sets and vector spaces.