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Gilbert Baumslag

Baumslag graduated from the University of the WitwatersrandinSouth Africa with a B.Sc. Honours (Masters) and D.Sc.^[3] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1958; his thesis, written under the direction of Bernhard Neumann, was titled Some aspects of groups with unique roots.^[4] His contributions include the Baumslag–Solitar groups and parafree groups.

Baumslag was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1968–69.^[5] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[6]

• Gilbert Baumslag, Groups with the same lower central sequence as a relatively free group. I. The groups, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 129 (1967), 308–321. MR0217157
• Gilbert Baumslag, Groups with the same lower central sequence as a relatively free group. II. Properties, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 142 (1969), 507–538. MR0245653
• Gilbert Baumslag and Donald Solitar, Some two-generator one-relator non-Hopfian groups, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 68 (1962), 199–201. MR0142635

• Gilbert Baumslag, at CCNY
• Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, at CCNY
• New York Group Theory Seminar, at The CUNY Graduate Center

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