Joseph Wedderburn
British mathematician
Died when: 66 years 250 days (800 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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.His younger brother was the lawyer Ernest Wedderburn.
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