Max August Zorn
German mathematician
Died when: 86 years 276 days (1041 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Max August Zorn (German: [ts??n];June 6, 1906 – March 9, 1993) was a German mathematician.He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst.
He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, and ordered sets amongst others.
Zorn's lemma was first postulated by Kazimierz Kuratowski in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935.
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