Meyer Bockstein

"Bockstein" redirects here. For the castle, see Tolmin Castle.

Meyer Bockstein (also Меер Феликсович Бокштейн or Meer Feliksovich Bokshtein or Bokstein) (4 October 1913 to 2 May 1990) was a topologist from Moscow who introduced the Bockstein homomorphism. The Bockstein spectral sequence is named after him.

References

• Meyer Bockstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Bockstein, Meyer (1958), "Sur la formule des coefficients universels pour les groupes d'homologie", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I, 247: 396–398, MR 0103918
• Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (Entry 791)