ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Joseph Wedderburn
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Scottish mathematician most famous for his work in abstract algebra.
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Nationality
Scottish
History
- Born: 2 Feb 1882 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland
- 1898: Entered Edinburgh University
- 1903: Obtained an M.A. degree with First Class Honours in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh
- 1903-1904: Postgraduate studies at the University of Leipzig
- 1904 summer semester: at the University of Berlin
- 1904-05: at the University of Chicago, working with Oswald Veblen
- 1905-09: at the University of Edinburgh
- 1906-08: Editor of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- 1909: Appointed a Preceptor in Mathematics at Princeton
- 1912-28: Served as Editor of the Annals of Mathematics
- 1914-19: Served in the British Army
- 1919: Returned to Princeton
- 1920: Promoted to Assistant Professor
- 1921: Obtaining permanent tenure as Associate Professor
- 1921: Received the MacDougall-Brisbane Gold Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1933: Elected to Royal Society of London
- 1945: Early retirement
- Died: 9 Oct 1948 (approx.) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Theorems and Definitions
- Artin-Wedderburn Theorem (with Emil Artin)
- Wedderburn's Little Theorem
- Wedderburn-Etherington Number (with Ivor Etherington)
Books and Papers
- 1903: On the Isoclinal Lines of a Differential Equation of the First Order
- 1907: Non-Desarguesian and non-Pascalian geometries (with Oswald Veblen)
- 1907: On Hypercomplex Numbers (for which he was awarded a D.Sc.)
- 1923: The Functional Equation $g \left({x^2}\right) = 2 a x + \left[{g \left({x}\right)}\right]^2$ (in Ann. Math. 24: 121-140)
- 1934: Lectures on Matrices
