Robert Steinberg, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics, died on May 25. He was 92.
Born on May 25, 1922 in Soroki, Bessarabia, Romania (present-day Moldavia), he earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1948 and joined the faculty that same year.
“He must be regarded as one of the great mathematicians of our time,” UCLA mathematics faculty colleague and longtime friend, professor Veeravalli Varadarajan, wrote in a tribute.
Steinberg, who retired in 1992, was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow in 1966. In 1985, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and also won the Leroy Steele prize from the American Mathematical Society for a distinguished career. The Canadian Mathematical Society awarded him the Jeffery-Williams Prize in 1990, and in 2003, the Journal of Algebra published a special issue to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Learn more about Steinberg in Varadarajan’s tribute.
