Paul Moritz Cohn FRS was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-com
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Paul Cohn
…Haifa and Bielefeld. He was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1972 and the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1974. In the early 1980s, funding cuts caused the closure of the small colleges of the University of London. Cohn moved to University College London…