Earl Taft

Earl Taft
Taft in the early 2010s
Born
Earl Jay Taft

1931
Died (aged 89)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
EducationAmherst College
Yale University
OccupationMathematician
SpouseHessy Levinsons
Children2

Earl Jay Taft (1931 – August 9, 2021) was an American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. He is the namesake of the Taft Hopf algebra which he introduced in a 1971 publication, and he was the founding editor of the journal Communications in Algebra. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Rutgers University.

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