Two responses to Clarence's posting about Milnor's student Yeh. Also (no jokes this time) four more consistently rejected e-mail addresses. Does anyone know the whereabouts or e-mail addresses of the following people? If not, they will be removed from the mailing list: Mark Brightwell........mbr@maths.gla.ac.uk Molly McLinden.........m_mclind@yahoo.com David Chataur..........chataur@math.unice.fr Chris Hazell...........hazellch@ma.man.ac.uk DMD _________________________________ Subject: Math genealogy Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:55:25 +0100 (BST) From: John Greenlees My experience suggests Clarence's memory is likely to be more reliable than the Math Genealogy project. For instance, I provided rather complete information (Names, dates and thesis titles) on Frank Adams's students, but only incomplete and garbled versions appear. I mention this in case someone has the time and energy to try to get some of their information corrected! My limited attempts failed. John PS. The information I have is available on my homepage, or in the LMS obituary by James and Wall (Bull LMS29 (1997) 489-501) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Prof. John Greenlees _/ Tel : (0114)-222 3786 direct _/ _/ Pure Mathematics _/ (0114)-222 3801 office _/ _/ University of Sheffield _/ _/ _/ Hicks Building _/ Fax : (0114)-222 3769 _/ _/ Sheffield S3 7RH _/ Email: j.greenlees@sheffield.ac.uk _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ WWW Homepage _/ _/ http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1jg/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Subject: Re: one more on lim-1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:14:59 +0100 From: "Prof. T.Porter" In response to the following message: > Subject: Re: more on lim-1 > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:16:48 -0500 > From: Clarence Wilkerson > > L. Avramov backs me up on the story that Milnor references the > Princeton thesis of one of his grad students. > > My memory is that this is the 1959 this of Yeh. > > However, to my surprise, this has proved to be tough to > verify on the web. > > 1) It does not appear on MathSciNet. > > 2) The math geneology project has only partial information > -- there was a grad student named "Yeh". My version has > initials R. Z., theirs Z.Z. They list no title or year. > 3) Of course, I could go 10 feet below me to the math library, > and find the article, but that would be cheating! > > Clarence Wilkerson Dear All, I have to hand Chris Jensen's lecture notes 254 and reference 52 is to : Z.Z. Yeh, Higher inverse limits and homology theories, Thesis, Princeton, 1959. I have never seen a hard copy but remember seeing a poor microfiche of the thesis years ago. Tim Porter.