Books By Irving Kaplansky - Author

Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006) received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard in 1941. He worked with the U.S. Government's Applied Mathematics Panel during World War II and taught at the University of Chicago from 1945-84, where he was Chairman of the Mathematics Department from 1962-67. He was Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, from 1984-92 and was President of the American Mathematical Society from 1985-86. Dover also publishes his Linear Algebra and Geometry: A Second Course.