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Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish mathematician. Born: 1913 in Warsaw, Poland. Died: 1998 in New York, USA.
His main interest was topology. He worked on the axiomatic treatment of homology theory with Norman Steenrod, and on homological algebra with Saunders Mac Lane, wrote a book on homological algebra with Henri Cartan that became a classic, and took part in the Bourbaki group meetings. Later in life he worked mainly in pure category theory. The Eilenberg telescope is a surprising construction, applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules.
See also: Stefan Banach, Stanislaw Ulam.
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