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Alfred Theodor Brauer (
''Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture''
p. 54. Springer, 2012. . Accessed February 25, 2013. "Schur's disciple Alfred Brauer was the last Jewish mathematician who managed to complete his habilitation and become Privatdozent at the University of Berlin before the Nazi regime began." InMcTutor
/ref> He died in
Alfred Theodor Brauer (April
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9, 1894
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23, 1985
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) was a German-American mathematician who did work in number theory
Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777â ...
. He was born in Charlottenburg
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, and studied at the University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...
. As he served Germany in World War I, even being injured in the war, he was able to keep his position longer than many other Jewish academics who had been forced out after Hitler's rise to power.Bergmann, Birgit; Epple, Moritz; and Ungar, Ruti''Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture''
p. 54. Springer, 2012. . Accessed February 25, 2013. "Schur's disciple Alfred Brauer was the last Jewish mathematician who managed to complete his habilitation and become Privatdozent at the University of Berlin before the Nazi regime began." In
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
he lost his position and in 1938 he tried to leave Germany, but was not able to until the following year. He initially worked in the Northeast, but in 1942 he settled into a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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. A good deal of his works, and the Alfred T. Brauer library, would be linked to this university. He occasionally taught at Wake Forest University
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after he retired from Chapel Hill at 70./ref> He died in
North Carolina
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, aged 91.
He was the brother of the mathematician Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular represent ...
, who was the founder of modular representation theory
Modular representation theory is a branch of mathematics, and is the part of representation theory that studies linear representations of finite groups over a field ''K'' of positive characteristic ''p'', necessarily a prime number. As well as ...
.
See also
* Brauer chain * Scholz–Brauer conjectureReferences
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brauer, Alfred T 20th-century German mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians Number theorists Humboldt University of Berlin faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Wake Forest University faculty Jewish American scientists Scientists from Berlin 1894 births 1985 deaths Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States German Jewish military personnel of World War I People from Charlottenburg People from the Province of Brandenburg 20th-century American Jews