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Jonathan Mock "Jon" Beck (November 11, 1935 – March 11, 2006, Somerville, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, who worked on category theory and algebraic topology.

Career

Beck received his PhD in 1967 under Samuel Eilenberg at Columbia University. Beck was a faculty member of the mathematics department of Cornell University and of the University of Puerto Rico. He is known for the eponymous Beck's tripleableness (monadicity) theorem and the Beck–Chevalley condition.

Publications

• Beck, J. (1969). "On H-spaces and infinite loop spaces". Category Theory, Homology Theory and their Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. III. pp. 139–153. doi:10.1007/BFb0081961. ISBN 978-3-540-04618-9.
• Beck, Jonathan Mock (2003) [1967], "Triples, algebras and cohomology" (PDF), Reprints in Theory and Applications of Categories, Columbia University PhD thesis, 2: 1–59, MR 1987896
• Beck, Jonathan Mock (2025) [1968]. "The tripleableness theorem" (PDF). Reprints in Theory and Applications of Categories. 31: 1–11.