Hans Julius Zassenhaus

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Hans Julius Zassenhaus (28 May 1912–21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.

He was born in Koblenz–Moselweiss, and became a student and then assistant of Emil Artin. He was subsequently a professor at Montreal, the University of Notre Dame, and Ohio State University, and was one of the founding editors of the Journal of Number Theory. He died in Columbus, Ohio.

[edit] Important publications

• Hans Julius Zassenhaus (1937), Lehrbuch der Gruppentheorie ("Textbook of group theory")

A famous group theory book based on a course by Emil Artin given at the University of Hamburg during winter semester 1933 and summer semester 1934.

[edit] See also

• Zassenhaus lemma
• Zassenhaus group
• Zassenhaus neighborhood
• Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm
• Schur–Zassenhaus theorem

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Hans Julius Zassenhaus”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Hans Julius Zassenhaus at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Biography from the Ohio State University