Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford (July 11, 1908 – December 27, 1992) was an American mathematician born in St. Louis, Missouri who is known for Clifford theory and for his work on semigroups. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale and his PhD at Caltech, and worked at MIT, Johns Hopkins (as Associate Professor),[1] and later, in 1955, Tulane University (as Professor of Mathematics and Head of Sophie Newcomb College).[2]

Alfred H. Clifford
Born(1908-07-08)July 8, 1908
DiedDecember 27, 1992(1992-12-27) (aged 84)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
California Institute of Technology
Known forClifford theory
Scientific career
FieldsGroup theory, semigroup theory
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Tulane University
Thesis Arithmetic of Ova  (1933)
Doctoral advisorEric Temple Bell, Morgan Ward

The Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library at Tulane University is named after him.[3]

Publications

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  • Clifford, A. H. (1937), Representations Induced in an Invariant Subgroup, Annals of Mathematics, 2nd series, 38(3): 533–550, doi:10.2307/1968599, JSTOR 1968599, PMC 1076873, PMID 16588132 George W. Mackie (1976), Theory of Unitary Group Representations, Chicago Mathematics Lecture, ISBN 0-226-50051-9
  • Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Preston, Gordon B. (1961), The algebraic theory of semigroups. Vol. I, Mathematical Surveys, No. 7, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0272-4, MR 0132791
  • Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Preston, Gordon B. (1967), The algebraic theory of semigroups. Vol. 2, American Mathematical Society
  • Clifford, Alfred. H. (1974), The Partial Groupoid of Idempotents of a Regular Semigroup, Tulane University, Department of Mathematics.
  • Clifford, Alfred. H. (1974), The Fundamental Representation of a Regular Semigroup, Tulane University, Department of Mathematics.
  • Clifford, Alfred. H. (1976), The Free Completely Regular Semigroup as a Set, Tulane Universite, Department of Mathematics.
  • Clifford, Alfred Hoblitzelle; Edited by Hofmann, Karl H. & Mislove, Michael W. (1996), Semigroup Theory and its Applications: Proceedings of the 1994 Conference Commemorating the Work of Alfried H. Clifford. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521576697

References

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  1. ^ "Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford | tulane". sse.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  2. ^ "The Clifford Lectures | tulane". sse.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  3. ^ "Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library". sse.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  • Hofmann, Karl H.; Mislove, Michael W., eds. (1996), Semigroup theory and its applications. Proceedings of the conference commemorating the work of Alfred H. Clifford held at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 1994, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 231, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-57669-5
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