Abraham Albert

Abraham Adrian Albert

Born: 9 Nov 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 6 June 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Abraham Albert's parents were Russian. His Ph.D., in 1928, was from Chicago under Dickson's supervision. After a year at Princeton and two years at Columbia, he returned to Chicago where he remained for the rest of his life. For a time Albert was chairman of the Chicago department and he was also President of the American Mathematical Society.

Albert's main work was on associative and non-associative algebras and Riemann matrices. He worked on classifying division algebras building on the work of Wedderburn but Brauer, Hasse and Emmy Noether got the result first. Albert's major contribution is, however, detailed in a joint paper with Hasse.

Albert's book Structure of Algebras published in 1939 remains a classic. The work on Riemann matrices was prompted by Lefschetz. Albert received the Cole prize for this work.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. N Jacobson, Abraham Albert, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 80 (1974), 1075-1100.
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