Jeffrey B. Remmel Explained

Titles:Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Discipline:Mathematician
Workplaces:UC San Diego
Birth Date:12 October 1948
Birth Place:Clintonville, Wisconsin
Death Place:La Jolla, California
Doctoral Advisor:Anil Nerode
Thesis Title:Co-recursively Enumerable Structures
Thesis Year:1974

Jeffrey Brian Remmel (October 12, 1948 September 29, 2017) was an American mathematician employed by the University of California, San Diego.[1] At the time of his death he held a distinguished professorship—his title was Distinguished Professor of Mathematics;[2] he also held a position as a professor of computer science.[3]

Personal life

Remmel was born on October 12, 1948, in Clintonville, Wisconsin.[4] He died aged 68 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California on September 2, 2017, with a reported cause of death being a heart attack.[5]

Education

Remmel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1974. Later, he received two degrees from Cornell University—a Master of Science in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy, also in math (1972 and 1974, respectively). At Cornell, he was advised by Anil Nerode, and his dissertation was entitled Co-recursively Enumerable Structures.[6]

Career

After obtaining his Ph.D., though before he had published a single paper, Remmel joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor, where he worked for his entire career. Remmel was noted for his successful publication record in two separate fields—logic, in which he published in mathematical logic; and combinatorics, where he published papers on algebraic combinatorics. He published over 20 papers in logic with Victor W. Marek,[7] and Remmel's more prominent career in combinatorics included over 20 co-authored papers with Sergey Kitaev. A double issue of the Journal of Combinatorics was published in his memory.[8]

Remmel's work is highly cited in the fields of vector spaces, including computably enumerable sets and vector spaces.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Robbins . Gary . October 6, 2017 . Renowned UC San Diego mathematician Jeff Remmel dies unexpectedly . January 11, 2024 . . en-US. Republished in the Chicago Tribune.
  2. Web site: Boggs . Steven . Steven Boggs . Ni . Lei . Jeffrey B. Remmel . January 11, 2024 . Academic Senate . University of California. Also published as a memorial by UC San Diego.
  3. Web site: Jeff Remmel's Home Page . January 12, 2024 . UC San Diego.
  4. Kitaev . Sergey . Sergey Kitaev . Mendes . Anthony . February 19, 2021 . The Combinatorics of Jeff Remmel . Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications . 1 . 2 . 2102.07269 . . S1H2.
  5. Web site: Ni . Lei . Buss . Sam . Sam Buss . September 30, 2017 . [FOM] Sad news, Jeff Remmel ]. January 13, 2024.
  6. December 2017 . Notices . The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic . 23 . 4 . 540–545 . 10.1017/bsl.2017.40 . 1079-8986 . 26409199. Also appears in Association for Symbolic Logic November 2017 newsletter.
  7. Web site: Marek . Victor W. . Victor W. Marek . Comments on Logic and Knowledge Representation .
  8. Loehr . Nicholas A. . 2019 . Foreword: Special Issue In Memory of Jeff Remmel . Journal of Combinatorics . 10 . 2 . 409–410.