Richard Swan

This article is about the American mathematician. For the Scottish cricketer, see Richard Swan (cricketer). For the 15th-century English member of parliament, see Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency).
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Richard Gordon Swan
Born1933 (age 92–93)
EducationPrinceton University
Known forSerre–Swan theorem, Forster–Swan theorem
AwardsWilliam Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, Cole Prize

Richard Gordon Swan (/swɑːn/; born 1933) is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre–Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules, and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group. His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory.

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