Background
SWAN, Richard was born on December 21, 1933 in New York, United States. Son of A. Gordon Swan and Rose Nespor Swan.
mathematician university professor
SWAN, Richard was born on December 21, 1933 in New York, United States. Son of A. Gordon Swan and Rose Nespor Swan.
Swan earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1957 from Princeton University under the supervision of John Coleman Moore.
Induced Representations and Projective Modules 1960, Groups of Cohomological Dimension one 1969, Vector Bundles over Affine Surfaces (with M. P. Murthy) 1976, Projective Modules over Binary Polyhedral Groups 1983, K-Theory of Quadric Hypersurfaces 1985.His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory. He is the Louis Block Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. His doctoral students at Chicago include Charles Weibel, also known for his work in K-theory.
University of Chicago since 1958, Professor since 1965, Louis Block Professor since 1982.
Married Erdmuthe Plesch-Ritz.