Sheldon Jay Axler (born November 6, 1949, Philadelphia) is an American mathematician and textbook author. He is a professor of mathematics and the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University.
He graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Miami, Florida in 1967. He obtained his AB in mathematics with highest honors at Princeton University (1971) and his PhD in mathematics, under professor Donald Sarason, from the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation "Subalgebras of " in 1975. As a postdoc, he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He taught for many years and became a full professor at Michigan State University. In 1997, Axler moved to San Francisco State University, where he became the chair of the Mathematics Department.
Axler received the Lester R. Ford Award for expository writing in 1996 from the Mathematical Association of America for a paper titled "Down with Determinants!" in which he shows how one can teach or learn linear algebra without the use of determinants.[1] Axler later wrote a textbook, Linear Algebra Done Right (4th ed. 2024), to the same effect.
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2] He was an Associate Editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and the Editor-in-Chief of the Mathematical Intelligencer.
Sheldon Jay Axler (born November 6, 1949, Philadelphia) is an American mathematician and textbook author. He is a professor of mathematics and the Dean...
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1978. Subsequent editors-in-chief were John Ewing from 1979 to 1986, SheldonAxler from 1987 to 1991, and Chandler Davis from 1991 to 2004. Beginning in...
Elroy McKendree Avery, Elementary Physics, New York : Sheldon & Company, 1878. Wheel and Axle, The World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc., 1998, pp...
on the Hardy-Hilbert Space, Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-35418-7 (with SheldonAxler and Donald Sarason) editors. A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators, Birkhäuser...
Their Characteristics and Methods of Specification. Wilkesbarre, PA: SheldonAxle Company. 1912. Stockel, Martin W.; Stockel, Martin T.; Johanson, Chris...
University of California, Berkeley Doctoral advisor Paul Halmos Doctoral students Sun-Yung Alice Chang SheldonAxler Thomas Wolff John Doyle John McCarthy...
Characteristics and Methods of Specification. Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania: SheldonAxle Company. 1912. p. 1. leaf spring. Adams, William Bridges (1837). English...
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews Axler, Sheldon (1990), "Dedication", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 3, doi:10...
tandem bicycle are an exception. Brown, Sheldon. "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary W: Wooden Rims". Sheldon Brown. Archived from the original on 11 January...
a double bladed rear and front fork. Brown, Sheldon (2006). "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary". Sheldon Brown. Retrieved 2018-01-26. The term "rear fork"...
as in a bottom bracket. American bicycle mechanic and author Sheldon Brown uses axle once and spindle four times in his bottom bracket glossary entry...
wheels and a single speed driven by a chain attached to a solid rear axle. Brown, Sheldon. "Raleigh 1951 Catalog". Raleigh Bicycle Catalog - 1951. Retrieved...
biking Sprocket Brown, Sheldon. "Bicycle Glossary". Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2010-05-24. "Sheldon Brown: Traditional Thread-on...
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