Daniel Zelinsky (22 November 1922 – 16 September 2015) was an American mathematician, specializing in algebra.
From 1941 to 1943 he was a research mathematician in Columbia University's applied mathematics group, in which he was the youngest member.
[citation needed] He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1955–1956,[3] which he spent at the Institute for Advanced Study.
[4][5] Dan Zelinsky's published work spans four decades and ranges across commutative and noncommutative rings, topological rings, topological methods in algebra, and cohomology, with Galois theory and Brauer groups being recurring themes.
An especially significant chunk is his 10 paper collaboration with Alex Rosenberg from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, including a paper in the famous Dimension Club series in the Nagoya Journal (On the Dimensions of Modules and Algebras VIII), in which they were joined by Samuel Eilenberg.