Mathematician:Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister

Mathematician

German mathematician whose interests were mainly in combinatorial group theory, combinatorial topology, geometric group theory, and the foundations of geometry.

Also a pioneer of knot theory.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 13 October 1893 in Braunschweig, Germany
• Died: 8 July 1971 in Göttingen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Reidemeister-Singer Theorem (with James Singer)

• Reidemeister Move
• Reidemeister Torsion

Results named for Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister can be found here.

Publications

• 1921: Über die Relativklassenzahl gewisser relativquadratischer Zahlkörper
• 1926: Knoten und Gruppen
• 1928: Exaktes Denken
• 1932: Einführung in die kombinatorische Topologie
• 1932: Knotentheorie
• 1949: Das exakte Denken der Griechen

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): knot theory
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): knot theory