Download or read book Mathematical Survey Lectures 1943-2004 written by Beno Eckmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of survey lectures in mathematics traces the career of Beno Eckmann, whose work ranges across a broad spectrum of mathematical concepts from topology through homological algebra to group theory. One of our most influential living mathematicians, Eckmann has been associated for nearly his entire professional life with the Swiss Federal Technical University (ETH) at Zurich, as student, lecturer, professor, and professor emeritus.