Ernst Steinitz

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Ernst Steinitz (June 13, 1871September 29, 1928) was an German mathematician. He was born in Laurahütte (Siemianowice Śląskie), Silesia, Germany (now Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland) and died in Kiel, Germany.

In 1910 Steinitz published the very influential paper Algebraische Theorie der Körper (German: Algebraic Theory of Fields). In this paper he axiomatically studies the properties of fields and defines important concepts like prime field, perfect field and the transcendence degree of an field extension.

[edit] Important publications

  • Ernst Steinitz, Algebraische Theorie der Körper Crelle's Journal (1910), 167–309

[edit] See also

  • Steinitz exchange theorem

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