Joseph Wedderburn
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Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS 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.
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Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS 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.
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Lived 1882 to 1948 · aged 66
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