Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish mathematician. Born: 1913 in Warsaw, Poland. Died: 1998 in New York, USA. His main interest was topology. He worked on the axiomatic treatment of homology with Norman Steenrod, and on homological algebra with Saunders Mac Lane, wrote a book on homological algebra with Henri Cartan that became a classic, and took part in the Bourbaki group meetings. Later in life he worked mainly in pure category theory. The Eilenberg telescope is a surprising construction, applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules. See also: Stefan Banach, Stanislaw Ulam. External links Biography of Samuel Eilenberg This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.