Wedderburn-Etherington number Artin–Wedderburn theorem
Awards
MacDougall-Brisbane Gold Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematician
Institutions
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor
George Chrystal
Doctoral students
Merrill Flood Nathan Jacobson Ernst Snapper
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) 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. He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra.[2][3]
His younger brother was the lawyer Ernest Wedderburn.
^Taylor, H. S. (1949). "Joseph Henry Maclagen Wedderburn. 1882-1948". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (18): 618–626. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1949.0016. JSTOR 768943. S2CID 179012329.
^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Joseph Wedderburn", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
^Joseph Wedderburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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