Jonathan Mock Beck

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.