Background
Goldie, Alfred William was born on December 10, 1920 in Coseley, Staffs, England. Son of Albert and Olive Alice (Caddick) Goldie.
mathematician university professor
Goldie, Alfred William was born on December 10, 1920 in Coseley, Staffs, England. Son of Albert and Olive Alice (Caddick) Goldie.
Goldie was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and then read Mathematics at Street John"s College, Cambridge.
His studies were interrupted by war work on ballistics with the Armament Research Department of the Ministry of Supply, eventually taking his Bachelor in 1942 and Master of Arts in 1946. Goldie became an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in 1946. In 1948 he was appointed Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at what was then King"s College, Durham (and has been the University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1963) where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1958 and Reader in Algebra in 1960.
In 1963 Goldie was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.
He retired from his chair in 1986 with the title Emeritus Professor. Goldie worked in ring theory where he introduced the notion of the uniform dimension of a module, and the reduced rank of a module.
He is well known for Goldie"s theorem, which characterizes right Goldie rings. Indeed, his Independent obituary described him as the "Lord of the Rings".
Goldie married Mary Kenyon in 1944.
Editor: Journal Algebra, since 1963.
Married Mary Kenyon, October 14, 1944. Children: Isobel, Helen, John.