Charles Wells (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 04-May-1937
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 17-Jun-2017
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Charles Wells (mathematician)
- Charles Wells (4 May 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia – 17 June 2017) was an American mathematician known for his fundamental contributions to category theory.
- He was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University.Wells taught there for about 35 years, with sabbatical interruptions at ETH Zürich (in mathematics) and Oxford University (in computing science).
- He had a research career in mathematics in finite fields, group theory and category theory.
- In the last twenty years of this life he had also been interested in the language of mathematics and related issues concerning teaching and communicating abstract ideas. He lived in Minnesota.
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