Joseph Wedderburn
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 76 years ago |
Date of birth | February 2,1882 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Forfar |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | October 9,1948 |
Died | Princeton |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Siblings | Ernest Wedderburn |
Known for | Wedderburn–Etherington number |
Artin–Wedderburn theorem | |
Job | Mathematician |
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ID | 2873539 |
Joseph Wedderburn Life story
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.