Sidney Morris

Sidney Allen Morris
Born1947 (age 77–78)
Brisbane, Australia
TitleEmeritus Professor
AwardsLester R. Ford Award (MAA)
Outstanding Service Award (ACS)
Academic background
Alma materFlinders University
ThesisVarieties of Topological Groups (1970)
Doctoral advisorIgor Kluvanek
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics, information technology
Sub-disciplineTopological groups
InstitutionsLa Trobe University (1976-1988)
University of New England (1988-1991)
University of Wollongong (1991-1997)
University of South Australia (1997-2001)
Federation University Australia (2001-present)
Websitewww.sidneymorris.net

Sidney "Sid" Morris (born 1947) is an Emeritus Professor at Federation University Australia who worked in the fields of mathematics and information technology. Before his retirement in 2010, he was a professor at several universities and received the 1987 Lester R. Ford award from the Mathematical Association of America. Morris is a fellow and former vice-president of the Australian Mathematical Society (AMS).

Education

Morris earned a BSc in 1969 from the University of Queensland, Australia and one year later completed a Ph.D. at Flinders University. His dissertation, completed under the supervision of Igor Kluvanek, defined the concept of "variety" among topological groups and proved a result similar to the Stone–Čech compactification.[1]

Career

During his first senior position at La Trobe University, Morris began as an editor for the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. He then became editor-in-chief of the Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series, a series published by Cambridge University Press.[2]

In 1987, Morris received the Lester R. Ford award from the Mathematical Association of America for the article Numerical Geometry – Numbers for Shapes.[3][4]

Morris published his first book The Structure of Compact Groups in 1998 with Karl Heinrich Hofmann.[5] He, along with Arthur Jones and Kenneth R. Pearson, published Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities in 2022 as part of Springer's Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series.[6]

Although he is retired, Morris remains an editor for the AMS's Gazette and MDPI's Internation Journal of Topology.[7][8] He continues to maintain his online book Topology Without Tears, which was initially published in 1985.[9]

Personal life

Sidney Morris received his rabbinical ordination in 2016 at the age of 68.[10] He has been married to his wife, Elizabeth, for over fifty years.[11]

Selected publications

  • Hofmann, Karl H.; Morris, Sidney A. (1998). The structure of compact groups: a primer for the student a handbook for the expert. Berlin New York: W. De Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-015268-1.
  • Morris, Sidney A. (2009). Pontryagin duality and the structure of locally compact abelian groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521215435.
  • Hofmann, Karl H.; Morris, Sidney A. (2007). The Lie theory of connected pro-Lie groups. Zürich: European mathematical society. ISBN 978-3-03719-032-6.

References

  1. ^ Morris, Sidney A. (1969). "Varieties of Topological Groups" (PDF). Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. 1 (2): 145–160. doi:10.1017/S0004972700041393.
  2. ^ Jones, Arthur; Gray, Alistair; Hutton, Robert (July 1987). Manifolds and mechanics. Cambridge University Press. pp. i–iv. ISBN 9780521336505.
  3. ^ Cleary, Joan; Morris, Sidney; Yost, David (1986). "Numerical geometry – numbers for shapes". The American Mathematical Monthly. 93 (4): 139–144. doi:10.1080/00029890.1986.11971802.
  4. ^ "Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Awards – Mathematical Association of America". Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on 22 June 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  5. ^ Netuka, Ivan; Souèek, Vladimír (June 1999). "Recent books". European Mathematical Society Newsletter. 32: 33.
  6. ^ Morris, Sidney A.; Jones, Arthur; Pearson, Kenneth R. (2022). Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities: Squaring the Circle, Doubling the Cube, Trisecting an Angle, and Solving Quintic Equations (Second ed.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05698-7. ISBN 978-3-031-05697-0.
  7. ^ "Frontmatter" (PDF). Gazette. 52 (2). Australian Mathematical Society: i. 2025.
  8. ^ "Editorial Board". mdpi.com. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  9. ^ Morris, Sidney A. Topology Without Tears (PDF). Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  10. ^ Roth, Phoebe. "It's never too late". www.australianjewishnews.com.
  11. ^ Morris, Sid. "Biography". Archived from the original on 14 July 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
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