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| | Samuel Eilenberg, September 30, 1913January 30, 1998 | By Hyman Bass, Henri Cartan, Peter Freyd, Alex Heller, and ... |
 | | I think I remember that he persuaded Steenrod to contribute the preface of our book, where the evolution of the ideas is explained perfectly. |
 | | Their most fateful invention perhaps was that of category theory, responding, no doubt, to the exigencies of algebraic topology but destined to radiate across most of mathematics. |
 | | In collaboration with Steenrod, Sammy drained the Pontine Marshes of homology theory, turning an ugly morass of variously motivated constructions into a simple and elegant system of axioms applied, for the first time, to functors. |
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