Hyman Bass Bio
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Hyman Bass is the Roger Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan. Prior to 1999, he was Adrain Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University, which he once chaired. His mathematical research interests include algebraic K-theory, commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, and geometric methods in group theory. He has held visiting appointments at universities and research institutes in Princeton, Paris, Bombay, Madurai, Cambridge, Berkeley, Rome, Rio, Mexico City, Stockholm, Trieste, and Salt Lake City. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. Bass is a past president of the American Mathematical Society. He formerly chaired the Mathematical Sciences Education Board at the National Research Council, and the Committee on Education of the American Mathematical Society. He is President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. Since 1996 he has been collaborating with Deborah Loewenberg Ball and her research group at the University of Michigan on the mathematical knowledge and resources entailed in the teaching of mathematics at the elementary level. He has also worked to build bridges between diverse professional communities and stakeholders involved in mathematics education.
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