He was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland to a Jewish family. He spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University. 展开

Eilenberg's main body of work was in algebraic topology. He worked on the axiomatic treatment of homology theory with Norman … 展开

• Eilenberg, Samuel (1974). Automata, Languages and Machines, Volume A. ISBN 0-12-234001-9.
• Eilenberg, … 展开

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Samuel Eilenberg", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Eilenberg's biography − from the National Academies Press, by Hyman Bass, 展开

Eilenberg was also a prominent collector of Asian art. His collection mainly consisted of small sculptures and other artifacts from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Central Asia. In 1991–1992, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in … 展开

• Stefan Banach
• Stanislaw Ulam
• Eilenberg–Montgomery fixed point theorem 展开