Jeffrey B. Remmel

American mathematician (1948–2017)

Combinatorics
logic
mathematical logic
computer science
computability

InstitutionsUC San Diego

Jeffrey Brian Remmel (October 12, 1948 – September 29, 2017) was an American mathematician employed by the University of California, San Diego.^[1] At the time of his death he held a distinguished professorship—his title was Distinguished Professor of Mathematics;^[2] he also held a position as a professor of computer science.^[3]

Personal life

Remmel was born on October 12, 1948, in Clintonville, Wisconsin.^[4] He died aged 68 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California on September 2, 2017,^[1] with a reported cause of death being a heart attack.^[5]

Education

Remmel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1974. Later, he received two degrees from Cornell University—a Master of Science in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy, also in math (1972 and 1974, respectively).^[3] At Cornell, he was advised by Anil Nerode, and his dissertation was entitled Co-recursively Enumerable Structures.^[6]

Career

After obtaining his Ph.D.,^[a] though before he had published a single paper,^[4] Remmel joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor, where he worked for his entire career.^[2] Remmel was noted for his successful publication record in two separate fields—logic, in which he published in mathematical logic; and combinatorics, where he published papers on algebraic combinatorics.^[6] He published over 20 papers in logic with Victor W. Marek,^[7] and Remmel's more prominent career in combinatorics included over 20 co-authored papers with Sergey Kitaev.^[4] A double issue of the Journal of Combinatorics^[b] was published in his memory.^[8]

Remmel's work is highly cited in the fields of vector spaces, including computably enumerable sets and vector spaces.^[c]

References

^ ^a ^b Robbins, Gary (October 6, 2017). "Renowned UC San Diego mathematician Jeff Remmel dies unexpectedly". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved January 11, 2024. Republished in the Chicago Tribune.
^ ^a ^b Boggs, Steven; Ni, Lei. "Jeffrey B. Remmel". Academic Senate. University of California. Retrieved January 11, 2024. Also published as a memorial by UC San Diego.
^ ^a ^b "Jeff Remmel's Home Page". UC San Diego. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kitaev, Sergey; Mendes, Anthony (February 19, 2021). "The Combinatorics of Jeff Remmel". Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications. 1 (2) S1H2. QID 124254336.
^ Ni, Lei; Buss, Sam (September 30, 2017). "[FOM] Sad news, Jeff Remmel". Retrieved January 13, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Notices". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 23 (4): 540–545. December 2017. doi:10.1017/bsl.2017.40. ISSN 1079-8986. JSTOR 26409199. Also appears in Association for Symbolic Logic November 2017 newsletter.
^ Marek, Victor W. "Comments on Logic and Knowledge Representation" (PDF).
^ Loehr, Nicholas A. (2019). "Foreword: Special Issue In Memory of Jeff Remmel" (PDF). Journal of Combinatorics. 10 (2): 409–410.

Notes

^ One source attests that he had not officially completed his Ph.D. upon joining UC San Diego.^[4]
^ ISSN 2156-3527; ISSN 2150-959X.
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See, for example:
- Kalantari, Iraj (1978). "Major Subspaces of Recursively Enumerable Vector Spaces". The Journal of Symbolic Logic. 43 (2): 293–303. doi:10.2307/2272828. ISSN 0022-4812.
- Downey, Rod G.; Stob, M. (1986). "Structural interactions of the recursively enumerable T- and W-degrees". Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 31: 205–236. doi:10.1016/0168-0072(86)90071-0.
- Dimitrov, Rumen D.; Harizanov, Valentina (2017). Day, Adam; Fellows, Michael; Greenberg, Noam; Khoussainov, Bakhadyr (eds.). "The Lattice of Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces" (PDF). Computability and Complexity. Vol. 10010. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 366–393. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50062-1_23. ISBN 978-3-319-50061-4.