J. Peter May

J. Peter May
Born (1939-09-16) September 16, 1939 (age 85)
Alma materSwarthmore College
Princeton University
Known forMay spectral sequence,
coining the term "operad"
AwardsFellow of the AMS
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University
University of Chicago
ThesisThe cohomology of restricted Lie algebras and of Hopf algebras: Application to the Steenrod algebra (1964)
Doctoral advisorJohn Moore
Doctoral studentsMark Behrens, Andrew Blumberg, Fred Cohen, Nick Gurski, Nick Kuhn, Ib Madsen, Emily Riehl, Mike Shulman, Zhouli Xu
Websitewww.math.uchicago.edu/~may

Jon Peter May (born September 16, 1939, in New York) is an American mathematician working in the fields of algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra. He is known, in particular, for the May spectral sequence and for coining the term operad.