Joseph J. Rotman

Joseph Rotman has been on the faculty of the mathematics department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 1959, and has been Professor Emeritus since 2004. Professor Rotman was an editor of Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (1970, 1971) and managing editor (1972, 1973). Aside from writing research articles, mostly on algebra, he has written textbooks on group theory, homological algebra, algebraic topology, Galois theory, and abstract algebra.