ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Ernst Witt
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German mathematician working mainly in the field of quadratic forms and algebraic function fields.
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Nationality
German
History
- Born: 26 June 1911, Alsen (German Baltic island) (now Als, Denmark)
- Died: 3 July 1991, Hamburg, Germany
Theorems and Definitions
- Witt Algebra
- Witt Decomposition
- Witt Group
- Hasse-Witt Matrix (with Helmut Hasse)
- Witt Ring
- Bourbaki-Witt Fixed Point Theorem (with Nicolas Bourbaki)
- Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem (with Henri Poincaré and George David Birkhoff)
- Shirshov-Witt Theorem (with Anatoly Illarionovich Shirshov)
- Witt's Theorem
- Witt Vector
Books and Papers
- 1933: Riemann-Rochscher Satz und Z-Funktion im Hyperkomplexen
- 1937: Treue Darstellung Liescher Ringe
- 1941: Spiegelungsgruppen und Aufzählung halbeinfacher Liescher Ringe
- 1941: Eine Identität zwischen Modulformen zweiten Grades
- 1950: On Zorn's Theorem
- 1951: Intuitionistic mathematics
- 1951: Beweisstudien zum Satz von M. Zorn (Mathematische Nachrichten Vol. 4: 434 – 438)
