Seymour Saul Lipschutz (born 1931 died March 2018) was an author of technical books on

pure mathematics Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications, ...

and

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...

, including a collection of

Schaum's Outlines Schaum's Outlines () is a series of supplementary texts for American high school, AP, and college-level courses, currently published by McGraw-Hill Education Professional, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill Education. The outlines cover a wide variety of ...

. Lipschutz received his Ph.D. in 1960 from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

Courant Institute The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...

. He received his BA and MA degrees in Mathematics at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

. He was a mathematics professor at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

, and before that on the faculty at the

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...

Bibliography

*Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics *Schaum's Outline of Probability *Schaum's Outline of Finite Mathematics *Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra *Schaum's Outline of Beginning Linear Algebra *Schaum's Outline of Set Theory *Schaum's Outline of General Topology *Schaum's Outline of Data Structures *Schaum's Outline of Differential Geometry

References

Year of death missing 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni Temple University faculty Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty Brooklyn College alumni 1931 births {{US-mathematician-stub