About Wallace Smith Martindale
Born 1930. Wallace Smith Martindale is a mathematician and statistician.
Wallace Smith Martindale III (born August 1930 in Philadelphia) is an American mathematician, known for Martindale's Theorem and the Martindale ring of quotients introduced in the proof of the theorem. His 1969 paper generalizes Posner's theorem and a theorem of Amitsur and gives an independent, unified proof of the two theorems. He became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and retired there as professor emeritus in 1996.
He is the father of two daughters. When he was 81 years old, Martindale, with one of his daughters, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
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