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

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an 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 1, where, roughly speakin ...

, including a collection of Schaum's Outlines. Lipschutz received his Ph.D. in 1960 from

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. He received his BA and MA degrees in Mathematics at Brooklyn College. He was a mathematics professor at

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, and before that on the faculty at the

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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

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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