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Jeffrey B. Remmel
Born(1948-10-12)October 12, 1948
Clintonville, Wisconsin
DiedSeptember 2, 2017(2017-09-02) (aged 68)
La Jolla, California
TitleDistinguished Professor of Mathematics
Academic background
Education
ThesisCo-recursively Enumerable Structures (1974)
Doctoral advisorAnil Nerode
Academic work
DisciplineMathematician
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUC San Diego

Jeffrey Brian Remmel (October 12, 1948 – September 29, 2017) was an American mathematician employed by the University of California, San Diego. At the time of his death he held a distinguished professorship—his title was Distinguished Professor of Mathematics; he also held a position as a professor of computer science.

Personal life

Remmel was born on October 12, 1948, in Clintonville, Wisconsin. He died aged 68 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California on September 29, 2017, with a reported cause of death being a heart attack.

Education

Remmel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1970. Later, he received two degrees from Cornell University—a Master of Science in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy, also in math (1972 and 1974, respectively). At Cornell, he was advised by Anil Nerode, and his dissertation was entitled Co-recursively Enumerable Structures.

Career

After obtaining his Ph.D., though before he had published a single paper, Remmel joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor, where he worked for his entire career. Remmel was noted for his successful publication record in two separate fields—logic, in which he published in mathematical logic; and combinatorics, where he published papers on algebraic combinatorics. He published over 20 papers in logic with Victor W. Marek, and Remmel's more prominent career in combinatorics included over 20 co-authored papers with Sergey Kitaev. A double issue of the Journal of Combinatorics was published in his memory.

Remmel's work is highly cited in the fields of vector spaces, including computably enumerable sets and vector spaces.

References

  1. ^ Robbins, Gary (October 6, 2017). "Renowned UC San Diego mathematician Jeff Remmel dies unexpectedly". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved January 11, 2024. Republished in the Chicago Tribune.
  2. ^ Boggs, Steven; Ni, Lei. "Jeffrey B. Remmel". Academic Senate. University of California. Retrieved January 11, 2024. Also published as a memorial by UC San Diego.
  3. ^ "Jeff Remmel's Home Page". UC San Diego. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  4. ^ Kitaev, Sergey; Mendes, Anthony (February 19, 2021). "The Combinatorics of Jeff Remmel". Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications. 1 (2) S1H2. arXiv:2102.07269. QID 124254336.
  5. Ni, Lei; Buss, Sam (September 30, 2017). "[FOM] Sad news, Jeff Remmel". Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  6. ^ "Notices". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 23 (4): 540–545. December 2017. doi:10.1017/bsl.2017.40. ISSN 1079-8986. JSTOR 26409199. Also appears in Association for Symbolic Logic November 2017 newsletter.
  7. Marek, Victor W. "Comments on Logic and Knowledge Representation" (PDF).
  8. Loehr, Nicholas A. (2019). "Foreword: Special Issue In Memory of Jeff Remmel" (PDF). Journal of Combinatorics. 10 (2): 409–410.

Notes

  1. One source attests that he had not officially completed his Ph.D. upon joining UC San Diego.
  2. ISSN 2156-3527; ISSN 2150-959X.
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