Samuel Gitler Hammer

Samuel Carlos Gitler Hammer (July 14, 1933 – September 9, 2014)[1][2] was a Mexican mathematician.

He then did his graduate studies in mathematics at Princeton University with Norman Steenrod, earning a doctorate in 1960.

He taught briefly at Brandeis University and then returned to Mexico, where he was one of the founders of the mathematics department of CINVESTAV.

Gitler was president of the Mexican Mathematical Society from 1967 to 1969, and chair at CINVESTAV from 1973 to 1981.

In the late 1980s he moved to the University of Rochester, where he chaired the mathematics department.