About

Hyman Bass is a Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, affiliated with the Department of Mathematics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, earned in 1959, with a focus on Algebra and Algebraic Geometry as well as Mathematics Education. His research areas include Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Mathematics Education, and related fields. Bass is recognized for his significant contributions to mathematics and mathematics education, and he is a distinguished member of the faculty with a long-standing academic career at the University of Michigan.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Philosophy
• Programming language
• Linguistics
• Mathematics education

Selected publications

• Interview with Hyman Bass

  ArXiv.org · 2025-02-13

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  Interview with Hyman Bass, whose mathematical life has spanned seven decades.

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• Task designs to support connection-oriented mathematical thinking

  HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2025-02-04

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  International audience

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• Interview with Hyman Bass

  Notices of the American Mathematical Society · 2025-06-01

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  Bass's remarkable and vibrant mathematical life has spanned seven decades.His research centered on algebra and connections to related areas.In the 1990s, he began to investigate mathematical knowledge for teaching.

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• Deborah Loewenberg Ball: Teaching/Learning Mathematics Teaching

  Notices of the American Mathematical Society · 2024-02-15

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  Deborah Loewenberg Ball made mathematical knowledge for teaching a rigorous research question, grounded in a close empirical study of the work of teaching.

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• Complex numbers

  American Mathematical Society eBooks · 2023-07-27

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• Basic notation and background

  American Mathematical Society eBooks · 2023

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  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • Programming language
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• Problem Collections and “The Unity of Mathematics”

  Research in mathematics education · 2023-01-01

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• Modular congruence and base-𝐵 expansions of rational numbers

  American Mathematical Society eBooks · 2023-07-27

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• The Mathematical Neighborhoods of School Mathematics

  2023 · 2 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics education
  • Mathematics
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• Polynomials

  American Mathematical Society eBooks · 2023-07-27

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Recent grants

• Using Practice as a Site to Learning Mathematics for Teaching: Developing Materials, Approaches and Professional Community

  NSF · $1.5M · 2005–2012

• Design, Validation, and Dissemination of Measures of Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics

  NSF · $4.3M · 2003–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Calvin C. Moore

  University of California, Berkeley

  100 shared

• Henry Mckean

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  100 shared

• Shiing-Shen Chern

  100 shared

• Gian‐Carlo Rota

  100 shared

• Peter D. Lax

  Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

  100 shared

• Hugh L. Montgomery

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  100 shared

• Irving Kaplansky

  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

  100 shared

• John Milnor

  Stony Brook University

  93 shared

Labs

• U-M LSA MathematicsPI

Education

• MS, Phd, Math

  Univ of Chicago

  1959

• BS, Math

  Princeton University

  1955