Mathematician:Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer

Mathematician
Heinz Prüfer was a German mathematician who worked on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm-Liouville theory.

Provided an ingenious proof of Cayley's Formula.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 10 Nov 1896, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
 * Died: 7 April 1934, Münster, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Prüfer Sequence (also known as Prüfer code)
 * Prüfer Rank
 * Prüfer Group
 * Prüfer Domain
 * Theorem of Prüfer
 * Prüfer Topology

Publications

 * 1921: Unendliche Abelsche Gruppen von Elementen endlicher Ordnung (Infinite abelian groups of elements of finite order)
 * 1923: Untersuchungen über die Zerlegbarkeit der abzählbaren primären Abelschen Gruppen (which investigates the decomposability of countable primary abelian groups)
 * 1924: Theorie der Abelschen Gruppen 1 (Theory of Abelian Groups, Part 1)
 * 1925: Theorie der Abelschen Gruppen 2 (Theory of Abelian Groups, Part 2)
 * 1925: Neue Begründung der algebraischen Zahlentheorie
 * 1926: Neue Herleitung der Sturm-Liouvilleschen Reihenentwicklung stetiger Funktionen
 * 1935: Projektive Geometrie (posthumous collection)