Hyman Bass
American mathematician
Hyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education. From 1959 to 1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University. Wikipedia
Born: 1932 (age 91 years), Houston, TX
Notable student: Tsit Yuen Lam
Academic advisor: Irving Kaplansky
Awards: National Medal of Science (2006) and Frank Nelson Cole Prize (1975)