Wolfgang Gröbner
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Wolfgang Gröbner (February 2, 1899 – August 20, 1980) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry.
He was born in Gossensass (modern Gossensass-Colle Isarco) in the Dolomites, at that time in Austria, now Italy.
Gröbner first studied engineering at the University of Technology in Graz but switched 1929 to mathematics.
He wrote his dissertation Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Minimalbasen 1932 at the University of Vienna; his advisor was Phillip Furtwängler. After his promotion he did further studies in Göttingen under Emmy Noether, in what is now known as commutative algebra.
His student, Bruno Buchberger, introduced Gröbner bases in his 1965 PhD thesis. Buchberger named them after his advisor.
