Robert Wayne Thomason

Robert Wayne Thomason (5 Nov 1952 Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA – Nov 1995 Paris, France) was an American mathematician who worked on algebraic K-theory. His results include a proof that all infinite loop space machines are in some sense equivalent, and progress on the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture.

Publications

• May, J. Peter; Thomason, R. (1978), "The uniqueness of infinite loop space machines", Topology. An International Journal of Mathematics 17 (3): 205–224, doi:10.1016/0040-9383(78)90026-5, ISSN 0040-9383, MR 508885
• Thomason, Robert W. (1985), "Algebraic K-theory and étale cohomology", Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Quatrième Série 18 (3): 437–552, ISSN 0012-9593, MR 826102 [http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASENS_1989_4_22_4_675_0 Erratum]
• Thomason, Robert W.; Trobaugh, Thomas (1990), "Higher algebraic K-theory of schemes and of derived categories", The Grothendieck Festschrift, Vol. III, Progr. Math. 88, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, pp. 247–435, doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-4576-2_10, ISBN 978-0-8176-3487-2, MR 1106918
• Thomason, Robert W. (1991), "The local to global principle in algebraic K-theory", in Satake, Ichirô, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Kyoto, 1990), Tokyo: Math. Soc. Japan, pp. 381–394, ISBN 978-4-431-70047-0, MR 1159226

References

• Bak, Anthony; Weibel, Charles (1997), "A tribute to Robert Wayne Thomason (1952–1995)", K-Theory 12 (1): 1–2, doi:10.1023/A:1007709906247, ISSN 0920-3036, MR 1466621
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Robert Wayne Thomason", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Robert Wayne Thomason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Snaith, Victor (1997), "Robert Wayne Thomason. 1952–1995", Algebraic K-theory (Toronto, ON, 1996), Fields Inst. Commun. 16, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. ix–xiii, MR 1466969
• Weibel, Charles A. (1996), "Robert W. Thomason (1952–1995)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 43 (8): 860–862, ISSN 0002-9920
• Weibel, Charles A. (1997), "The mathematical enterprises of Robert Thomason", American Mathematical Society. Bulletin. New Series 34 (1): 1–13, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00707-6, ISSN 0002-9904, MR 1401423