Ascher Otto Wagner (12 October 1930, in
Vienna
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– 27 May 2000, in London) was an Austrian and British
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.
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, specializing in the theory of
finite group
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s and
finite projective plane
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s. He is known for the .
Ascher Wagner received his Ph.D. in 1958 with dissertation ''Some Problems on Projective Planes and Related Topics in the Theory of Algebraic Operations'' supervised by
Kurt Hirsch
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Wagner was a faculty member at the University of London and then at the University of Birmingham.
In 1958 he married Gillian Mary Jaidka (1929–1993) in
Hampstead, London
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1930 births
2000 deaths
20th-century British mathematicians
Alumni of the University of London
Academics of the University of London
Academics of the University of Birmingham