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J. Peter May | |
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| Born | September 16, 1939 |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College Princeton University |
| Known for | May spectral sequence, coining the term "operad" |
| Awards | Fellow of the AMS |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yale University University of Chicago |
| Thesis | The cohomology of restricted Lie algebras and of Hopf algebras: Application to the Steenrod algebra (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Moore |
| Doctoral students | Mark Behrens, Andrew Blumberg, Fred Cohen, Nick Gurski, Nick Kuhn, Ib Madsen, Emily Riehl, Mike Shulman, Zhouli Xu |
| Website | www |
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.