Stephen Lichtenbaum (1939 in

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) is an American mathematician who is working in the fields of algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory and

algebraic K-theory Algebraic ''K''-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic objects are assigned objects called ''K''-groups. These are groups in the sense ...

. Lichtenbaum was an undergraduate at

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(bachelor's degree "summa cum laude" in 1960), where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 (Curves over discrete valuation rings, American Journal of Mathematics Bd.90, 1968, S.380-405). After that, he was a lecturer at the

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

, in 1960 he was assistant professor at

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, where he became associate professor in 1969 and professor in 1973. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the Faculty Board. Since 1990 he is professor at Brown University, where he was Chairman from 1994 to 1997. He was also a visiting scientist at

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(1973, 1984),

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(VI, XI, VII, XIII), IHES (1974, 1977, 1982 / 83, 1987/88, 1997), MSRI (1987),

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(1998, 2002). Since 2003, he has been an associate professor at the University of Paris Chevalaret. The Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjecture (from about 1971) about the relationship of the values of the

Dedekind zeta function In mathematics, the Dedekind zeta function of an algebraic number field ''K'', generally denoted ζ''K''(''s''), is a generalization of the Riemann zeta function (which is obtained in the case where ''K'' is the field of rational numbers Q). It ...

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s at specific locations (negative integers) is named after him and

Daniel Quillen Daniel Gray "Dan" Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic ''K''-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 19 ...

. In 1959 he was a

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. In 1973/74 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. Since 1995 he has been co-editor of Documenta Mathematica. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-01-27.

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page at Brown University with CV
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lichtenbaum, Stephen 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 1939 births Living people Brown University faculty Harvard University alumni Cornell University faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Putnam Fellows