Meyer Bockstein

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Meyer Bockstein (also Меер Феликсович Бокштейн or Meer Feliksovich Bokshtein or Bokstein) (4 October 1913 to 2 May 1990) was a topologist from Moscow who introduced the Bockstein homomorphism. The Bockstein spectral sequence is named after him.

References

Meyer Bockstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Bockstein, Meyer (1958), "Sur la formule des coefficients universels pour les groupes d'homologie", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série I. Mathématique 247: 396–398, MR 0103918
Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (Entry 791)

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