Jon Peter May (born September 16, 1939, in New York) is an American mathematician working in the fields of algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra.
He is known, in particular, for the May spectral sequence and for coining the term operad.
The word "operad" was created by May as a portmanteau of "operations" and "monad".α[2] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
[3] He has advised over 60 doctoral students, including Mark Behrens, Andrew Blumberg, Frederick Cohen, Ib Madsen, Emily Riehl, Michael Shulman, and Zhouli Xu.
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