Jonathan Mock "Jon" Beck (November 11, 1935 - March 11, 2006, Somerville, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, who worked on category theory and algebraic topology.[1]
Beck received his PhD in 1967 under Samuel Eilenberg at Columbia University. Beck was a faculty member of the mathematics department of Cornell University and of the University of Puerto Rico. He is known for the eponymous Beck's tripleableness (monadicity) theorem and the Beck–Chevalley condition.