Max Kelly

Professor Kelly is unique among Australian mathematicians in that his international reputation rests on work in a thoroughly modern, non-classical, branch of mathematics. Indeed, category theory is barely ten years old, yet in the span of a few years it has seen a remarkable development into an all-embracing mathematical discipline, pervading almost all fundamental structures of mathematics. Professor Kelly has played a leading role in this development along with the creators of the theory, S. Eilenberg and Saunders McLane. He has a powerful mathematical personality, sharp-witted and formidable in debate; he is very active at present and his influence on the young generation of Australian mathematicians is considerable.

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