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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.[1] At the time of his death he held a distinguished professorship—his title was Distinguished Professor of Mathematics;[2] he also held a position as a professor of computer science.[3]

Personal life

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Remmel was born on October 12, 1948, in Clintonville, Wisconsin.[4] He died aged 68 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California on September 29, 2017,[1] with a reported cause of death being a heart attack.[5]

Education

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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).[3] At Cornell, he was advised by Anil Nerode, and his dissertation was entitled Co-recursively Enumerable Structures.[6]

Career

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After obtaining his Ph.D.,[a] though before he had published a single paper,[4] Remmel joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor, where he worked for his entire career.[2] 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.[6] He published over 20 papers in logic with Victor W. Marek,[7] and Remmel's more prominent career in combinatorics included over 20 co-authored papers with Sergey Kitaev.[4] A double issue of the Journal of Combinatorics[b] was published in his memory.[8]

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

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b "Jeff Remmel's Home Page". UC San Diego. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b "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

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  1. ^ One source attests that he had not officially completed his Ph.D. upon joining UC San Diego.[4]
  2. ^ ISSN 2156-3527; ISSN 2150-959X.
  3. ^ See, for example:
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