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词条 Denis Higgs
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  1. Life

  2. Career

  3. Academic publications

  4. References

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| workplaces = University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cambridge, University of Waterloo
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| thesis_title = Matroids on Complete Boolean Algebras
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| thesis_year = 1970
| doctoral_advisor = Gert Sabidussi
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| notable_students = Philip Scott, Peter Schotch
| known_for = Category theory
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Universal algebra
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}}Denis A. Higgs ({{Birth date|df=yes|1932|5|6}} – {{Date of death|2011|2|25}}) was a British mathematician, Doctor of Mathematics, and professor of mathematics who specialised in combinatorics, universal algebra, and category theory. He wrote one of the most influential papers in category theory entitled A category approach to boolean valued set theory, which introduced many students to topos theory.[1]

He was a member of the National Committee of Liberation and was an outspoken critic against the apartheid in South Africa.

Life

He earned degrees from Cambridge University, St John's College, in England and University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa,

In 1962, he became a member of the National Committee of Liberation, a movement whose main objective was to dismantle the apartheid in South Africa.[2]

On 28 August 1964, he was kidnapped from his home in Lusaka, Zambia. Then South Africa's Justice Minister John Vorster, who later became Prime Minister, denied any involvement by either the South African government or the police.[3]

On 1 September, an unidentified man who claimed to be part of British Protectorates called the Rand Daily Mail newspaper and gave specific details of Denis Higgs's whereabouts. On 2 September, police authorities found him. He was blindfolded and bound in a van over by the Zoo Park area.[3]

On 6 September 1964, Higgs fled to London, accompanied by his family. He later stated that he feared for his safety and that of his family, since a day before his departure, the South African government had begun proceedings of extradition for his alleged participation in the explosion at the Johannesburg Railway Station.[2]

Career

He emigrated to Canada in 1966, and held a position as a professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where he wrote one of the most influential papers in category theory entitled A category approach to boolean valued set theory, which introduced many students to topos theory.[1]

In 1973, he generalised the Rasiowa-Sikorski Boolean models to the case of category theory.[4]

His academic papers were published in Algebra Universalis, the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, and Mathematics of Computation, among other journals.

He died on 25 February 2011.[5]

Academic publications

  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Nuclearity in the category of complete semilattices
|journal = Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
|volume = 57
|year = 1989
|pages = 67–78
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1016/0022-4049(89)90028-5
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Don Brunker
|author2 = Denis Higgs
|title = Constructions of Σ-groups, relatively free Σ-groups
|journal = Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
|volume = 46
|year = 1989
|issue = 1
|pages = 8
|doi = 10.1017/S1446788700030354
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Remarks on duality for ?-groups: Banach and Hilbert spaces
|journal = Advances in Mathematics
|volume = 76
|year = 1989
|pages = 230–244
|issue = 2
|doi = 10.1016/0001-8708(89)90052-2
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Σ-Groups as Convergence Groups
|journal = Mathematische Nachrichten
|volume = 137
|year = 1988
|pages = 101–112
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1002/mana.19881370110
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Lattices of crosscuts
|journal = Algebra Universalis
|volume = 23
|year = 1986
|pages = 10–18
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF01190905
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = A companion to Grillet's Theorem on maximal chains and antichains
|journal = Order
|volume = 1
|year = 1985
|pages = 371–375
|issue = 4
|doi = 10.1007/BF00582742
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = J. E. Baumgartner
|author2 = D. Higgs
|title = Cross-cuts in the power set of an infinite set
|journal = Order
|volume = 1
|year = 1984
|pages = 139–145
|issue = 2
|doi = 10.1007/BF00565649
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = D. Handelman
|author2 = D. Higgs
|author3 = J. Lawrence
|title = Directed Abelian Groups, Countably Continuous Rings, and Rickart C*-Algebras
|journal = Journal of the London Mathematical Society
|volume = s2-21
|year = 1980
|pages = 193–202
|issue = 2
|doi = 10.1112/jlms/s2-21.2.193
|citeseerx = 10.1.1.133.3055
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = D. Higgs
|title = A Universal Characterization of [0, ∞]
|journal = Indagationes Mathematicae (proceedings)
|volume = 81
|year = 1978
|pages = 448–455
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1016/S1385-7258(78)80035-3
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = John E. Blackburn
|author2 = Henry H. Crapo
|author3 = Denis A. Higgs
|title = A Catalogue of Combinatorial Geometries
|journal = Mathematics of Computation
|volume = 27
|year = 1973
|issue = 121
|pages = 155
|doi = 10.2307/2005258
|jstor = 2005258
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = John E. Blackburn
|author2 = Henry H. Crapo
|author3 = Denis A. Higgs
|title = A catalogue of combinatorial geometries
|journal = Mathematics of Computation
|volume = 27
|year = 1973
|pages = 155
|issue = 121
|doi = 10.1090/S0025-5718-1973-0419270-0
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Remarks on residually small varieties
|journal = Algebra Universalis
|volume = 1
|year = 1971
|pages = 383–385
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF02944997
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Lattices isomorphic to their ideal lattices
|journal = Algebra Universalis
|volume = 1
|year = 1971
|pages = 71–72
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF02944957
}}
  • {{cite journal

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Boolean-valued equivalence relations and complete extensions of complete boolean algebras
|journal = Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
|volume = 3
|year = 1970
|issue = 1
|pages = 65
|doi = 10.1017/S0004972700045652
}}
  • {{cite book

|author = Denis Higgs
|title = Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory
|volume = 1149
|pages = 142–149
|chapter = Interpolation antichains in lattices
|doi = 10.1007/BFb0098461
|series = Lecture Notes in Mathematics
|year = 1985
|isbn = 978-3-540-15691-8
}}

References

1. ^{{cite web |url= http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6574|title= Denis Higgs|last1= Scott|first1= Phil|date= 7 March 2011|website= |publisher= Mount Allison University|accessdate=14 December 2012}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=The Road to Democracy in South Africa (1960–1970)|author= South African Democracy Education Trust|isbn= 9781868729067|lccn= 2004448218|series= The Road to Democracy in South Africa|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qIQttVhKf3EC|year= 2004|publisher= Zebra Press}}
3. ^{{cite news |title= Kidnapped Teacher Goes Back to Rhodesia|author= |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19640903&id=2kUjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2839,4269434|newspaper= The Sydney Morning Herald|date= 3 September 1964|accessdate=7 December 2012}}
4. ^{{cite book|title= Andrzej Mostowski and Foundational Studies|last= Mostowski |first = A. |last2 = Ehrenfeucht |first2 = A. |last3 = Marek |first3 = V.W.|last4 = Srebrny |first4 = M.|isbn= 9781586037826|lccn= 2007939570|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri4kjs-iGRgC|year= 2008|publisher= Ios Press Inc}}
5. ^{{cite journal|journal= Notices of the American Mathematical Society|title= Notices of the AMS|publisher = American Mathematical Society|volume = 58|year = 2011|issue = 5|page = 731|url = http://www.ams.org/notices/201105/rtx110500730p.pdf}}
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