Wolfgang Gröbner

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Wolfgang Gröbner

Wolfgang Gröbner (February 11, 1899 – August 20, 1980) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner, who was his advisor.

He was born in Gossensaß, which at that time was in part of the County of Tyrol of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now part of Italy.

Gröbner first studied engineering at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria, but switched in 1929 to mathematics.

He wrote his dissertation Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Minimalbasen in 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.

External links

Wolfgang Gröbner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

References

Wolfgang Gröbner biography (in German)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 7470564 LCCN: n84802844 ISNI: 0000 0001 1036 990X GND: 119161427 BNF: cb12378765v MGP: 74462

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Name	Grobner, Wolfgang
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Short description	Austrian mathematician
Date of birth	February 2, 1899
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Date of death	August 20, 1980
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