Krull

Wolfgang Krull

Born: 26 Aug 1899 in Baden-Baden, Germany
Died: 12 April 1971 in Bonn, Germany

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Krull studied at Göttingen with Klein but was most influenced by Emmy Noether. His first publications were on rings and algebraic extension fields. In 1925 he proved the Krull-Schmidt theorem for decomposing abelian groups. He then studied Galois theory and in 1928 he defined the Krull dimension of a ring. Krull worked at Erlangen and Bonn. He supervised 35 doctoral students.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. H Schoeneborn, In memoriam Wolfgang Krull, Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker vereinigung 82 (1980), 63-78. 
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