Alfred Loewy (20 June 1873 – 25 January 1935) was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

who worked on

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...

. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and

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are named after him. His graduate students included

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and

Friedrich Karl Schmidt Friedrich Karl Schmidt (22 September 1901 – 25 January 1977) was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory. Schmidt studied from 1920 to 1925 in Freiburg and Marburg. In 1925 he completed his doctorate ...

Books

*''Versicherungsmathematik'', 1903 *''Lehrbuch der Algebra'', 1915 *''Grundlagen der Arithmetik'' 1915
''Mathematik des Geld- und Zahlungsverkehrs''
1920

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References

* * * Volker R. Remmert: Zur Mathematikgeschichte in Freiburg. Alfred Loewy (1873-1935): Jähes Ende späten Glanzes, in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 129(1995), 81-102 20th-century German mathematicians 1873 births 1935 deaths People from Rawicz People from the Province of Posen {{Germany-mathematician-stub