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Wallace Smith Martindale

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Wallace Smith Martindale III (born August 1930 in Philadelphia) is an American mathematician, known for Martindale's Theorem (1969) and the Martindale ring of quotients introduced in the proof of the theorem.[1][2][3] His 1969 paper generalizes Posner's theorem and a theorem of Amitsur[4] and gives an independent, unified proof of the two theorems.[1]

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Martindale received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1958 from the University of Pennsylvania.[5] He became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and retired there as professor emeritus in 1996.[6]

He is the father of two daughters. When he was 81 years old, Martindale, with one of his daughters, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.[7]

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  1. ^ a b Martindale 3rd, Wallace S. (1969). "Prime rings satisfying a generalized polynomial identity". Journal of Algebra. 12 (4): 576–584. doi:10.1016/0021-8693(69)90029-5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Rowen, Louis H. (June 1988). Ring Theory, Volume I. p. 345. ISBN 9780080874463.
  3. ^ Kostrikin, A. I.; Shafarevich, I. R., eds. (6 December 2012). Algebra II: Noncommutative Rings Identities. p. 79. ISBN 9783642728990.
  4. ^ Amitsur, S. A. (1965). "Generalized Polynomial Identities and Pivotal Monomials". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 114 (1): 210–226. doi:10.2307/1993998. ISSN 0002-9947. JSTOR 1993998.
  5. ^ Wallace Smith Martindale, III at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ "Mathematics and Statistics Faculty, 2005/2006 Graduate School Bulletin". University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  7. ^ "Mt. Airy native climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro at the age of 81". WHYY Philadelphia (public FM radio station). July 2012.