Ross Street

{{Short description|Australian mathematician}}

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Ross Howard Street (born 29 September 1945, Sydney) is an Australian mathematician specialising in category theory.[http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003689b.htm Street, Ross Howard (1945 - )], Biographical entry, Encyclopaedia of Australian Science[http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1474990?c=people Street, Ross Howard, FAA (1945-)], trove.nla.gov.au{{Cite web |url = http://perso.uclouvain.be/tim.vanderlinden/ctag.html |title = Category Theory, Algebra and Geometry |website = perso.uclouvain.be |access-date = 2016-04-10}}{{cite web |title= Centenary Medal |date= 1 January 2001 |quote= For service to Australian society and science in mathematics |publisher= It's an Honour |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1127808 }}

Biography

Street completed his undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of Sydney, where his dissertation advisor was Max Kelly. He is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Macquarie University, a fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society (1995), and was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1989.[https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/emeritus-professor-ross-howard-street Emeritus Professor Ross Howard Street], Fellow, www.science.org.au He was awarded the Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1977, and the Australian Mathematical Society's George Szekeres Medal in 2012.

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