Norman Steenrod

American mathematician

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In mathematics: Developments in pure mathematics
…member, and the American mathematician Norman Steenrod. Saunders Mac Lane, also of the United States, and Eilenberg extended this axiomatic approach until many types of mathematical structures were presented in families, called categories. Hence there was a category consisting of all groups and all maps between them that preserve multiplication,…
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