nLab Lyle Eugene Pursell

Lyle Eugene Pursell (-2015) was a mathematician at the University of Missouri at Rolla (currently known as Missouri University of Science and Technology).

He got his PhD in 1952 from Purdue University, advised by Merrill E. Shanks.

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Selected works

On the embedding of smooth manifolds into formal duals of R-algebras:

• Lyle Eugene Pursell, Algebraic structures associated with smooth manifolds, PhD dissertation, Purdue University, 1952. 93 pp. ISBN: 978-1392-88143-9. PDF.

On Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization via Gaussian elimination:

• Lyle E. Pursell, S. Y. Trimble, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization by Gauss elimination, The American Mathematical Monthly 98 6 (1991) 544-549 [doi:10.1080/00029890.1991.11995755, jstor:2324877]

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