Wallace Smith Martindale III (born August 1930 in Philadelphia) is an American mathematician, known for Martindale's Theorem (1969) and the Martindale ring of quotients introduced in the proof of the theorem.
His 1969 paper generalizes
Posner's theorem and a theorem of
Amitsur and gives an independent, unified proof of the two theorems.
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Biography
Martindale received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1958 from the University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
. He became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
and retired there as professor emeritus in 1996.
He is the father of two daughters. When he was 81 years old, Martindale, with one of his daughters, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
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1930 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Algebraists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty