Meyer Bockstein
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Meyer Bockstein or Meer Feliksovich Bokshtein or Bokstein (October 4, 1913, to May 2, 1990) was a topologist from Moscow
who introduced the Bockstein homomorphism
. The Bockstein spectral sequence
is named after him.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
who introduced the Bockstein homomorphism
Bockstein homomorphism
In homological algebra, the Bockstein homomorphism, introduced by , is a connecting homomorphism associated with a short exact sequenceof abelian groups, when they are introduced as coefficients into a chain complex C, and which appears in the homology groups as a homomorphism reducing degree by...
. The Bockstein spectral sequence
Bockstein spectral sequence
In mathematics, the Bockstein spectral sequence is a spectral sequence relating the homology with mod p coefficients and the homology reduced mod p. It is named after Meyer Bockstein....
is named after him.