Marvin J. Greenberg *59

Marvin Greenberg, who had been a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, died Dec. 12, 2017, at age 81.

Greenberg graduated from Columbia University in 1955. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1959. After teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, and Northeastern University, he went to the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1967.

He was one of the founding members of the Santa Cruz Department of Mathematics. The year 1967 was also the year his noted book Lectures on Algebraic Topology was published. In 1974 he published another popular book, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries.

In recognition of these two books and a 2010 expository article on the foundations of plane and non-Euclidean geometries (which appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly), he was awarded the Lester R. Ford Prize in expository writing from the Mathematical Association of America.

Greenberg had a very important role in hiring the first members of Santa Cruz’s math department.

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