About Richard Elman
Born 1945. Richard Elman is an American mathematician and university teacher.
Richard Steven Elman (born 21 March 1945) is an American mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for his work in algebra. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, under the supervision of Tsit Yuen Lam.
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Among his collaborators are Nikita Karpenko and Alexander Merkurjev.
Selected publications as editor with Murray M. Schacher and Veeravalli S. Varadarajan: with Nikita Karpenko and Alexander Merkurjev:
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American mathematician
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Richard Elman was born on 21 March 1945.
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