ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Heinz Prüfer
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Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer was a German mathematician who worked on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm-Liouville theory.
Provided an ingenious proof of Cayley's Formula.
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Nationality
German
History
- Born: 10 Nov 1896, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
- Died: 7 April 1934, Münster, Germany
Theorems and Definitions
- Prüfer Sequence (also known as Prüfer code)
- Prüfer Rank
- Prüfer Group
- Prüfer Domain
- Theorem of Prüfer
- Prüfer Topology
Books and Papers
- 1921: Unendliche Abelsche Gruppen von Elementen endlicher Ordnung (Infinite abelian groups of elements of finite order)
- 1923: Untersuchungen über die Zerlegbarkeit der abzählbaren primären Abelschen Gruppen (which investigates the decomposability of countable primary abelian groups)
- 1924: Theorie der Abelschen Gruppen 1 (Theory of Abelian Groups, Part 1)
- 1925: Theorie der Abelschen Gruppen 2 (Theory of Abelian Groups, Part 2)
- 1925: Neue Begründung der algebraischen Zahlentheorie
- 1926: Neue Herleitung der Sturm-Liouvilleschen Reihenentwicklung stetiger Funktionen
- 1935: Projektive Geometrie (posthumous collection)
