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Helmut Wielandt (19 December 1910 – 14 February 2001) was a German mathematician who worked on
"Entwicklungslinien in der Strukturtheorie der endlichen Gruppen."
In ''Proc. Intern. Congress Math.'', Edinburgh, pp. 268-278. 1958. and was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Bedingungen für die Konjugiertheit von Untergruppen endlicher Gruppen'' (Conditions for the Conjugacy of Finite Groups) at the ICM in 1962 in
''Curriculum vitae'' from ''Mathematische Werke'', Bd. 1
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
Prof. Dr. Helmut Wielandt
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wielandt, Helmut 20th-century German mathematicians 1910 births 2001 deaths Academic journal editors Group theorists People from Lörrach (district)
Helmut Wielandt (19 December 1910 – 14 February 2001) was a German mathematician who worked on permutation group
In mathematics, a permutation group is a group ''G'' whose elements are permutations of a given set ''M'' and whose group operation is the composition of permutations in ''G'' (which are thought of as bijective functions from the set ''M'' to it ...
s.
He was born in Niedereggenen, Lörrach
Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the ...
, Germany.
He gave a plenary lecture ''Entwicklungslinien in der Strukturtheorie der endlichen Gruppen'' (Lines of Development in the Structure Theory of Finite Groups) at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
(ICM) in 1958 at Edinburgh
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Wielandt, H"Entwicklungslinien in der Strukturtheorie der endlichen Gruppen."
In ''Proc. Intern. Congress Math.'', Edinburgh, pp. 268-278. 1958. and was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Bedingungen für die Konjugiertheit von Untergruppen endlicher Gruppen'' (Conditions for the Conjugacy of Finite Groups) at the ICM in 1962 in
Stockholm
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.
See also
* Collatz–Wielandt formula *Wielandt theorem In mathematics, the Wielandt theorem characterizes the gamma function, defined for all complex numbers z for which \mathrm\,z > 0 by
:\Gamma(z)=\int_0^ t^ \mathrm e^\,\mathrm dt,
as the only function f defined on the half-plane H := \ such that:
* ...
Publications
* * * Among his work in Algebra is an elegant proof of the Sylow Theorems (replacing an older cumbersome proof involving double cosets) that is in the standard textbooks on Abstract Algebra, i.e. Group Theory.References
* * *External links
''Curriculum vitae'' from ''Mathematische Werke'', Bd. 1
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
Prof. Dr. Helmut Wielandt
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wielandt, Helmut 20th-century German mathematicians 1910 births 2001 deaths Academic journal editors Group theorists People from Lörrach (district)