Mathematician:Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn

Scottish mathematician most famous for his work in abstract algebra.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: 2 Feb 1882 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland
 * 1898: Entered Edinburgh University
 * 1903: Obtained an M.A. degree with First Class Honours in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh
 * 1903-1904: Postgraduate studies at the University of Leipzig
 * 1904 summer semester: at the University of Berlin
 * 1904-05: at the University of Chicago, working with Oswald Veblen
 * 1905-09: at the University of Edinburgh
 * 1906-08: Editor of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
 * 1909: Appointed a Preceptor in Mathematics at Princeton
 * 1912-28: Served as Editor of the Annals of Mathematics
 * 1914-19: Served in the British Army
 * 1919: Returned to Princeton
 * 1920: Promoted to Assistant Professor
 * 1921: Obtaining permanent tenure as Associate Professor
 * 1921: Received the MacDougall-Brisbane Gold Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh
 * 1933: Elected to Royal Society of London
 * 1945: Early retirement
 * Died: 9 Oct 1948 (approx.) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Wedderburn's Little Theorem
 * Wedderburn-Etherington Number (with Ivor Etherington)

Books and Papers

 * 1903: On the isoclinal lines of a differential equation of the first order
 * 1907: Non-Desarguesian and non-Pascalian geometries (with Oswald Veblen)
 * 1907: On hypercomplex numbers (for which he was awarded a D.Sc.)
 * 1923: The functional equation $$g \left({x^2}\right) = 2 a x + \left[{g \left({x}\right)}\right]^2$$ (in Ann. Math. 24: 121-140)
 * 1934: Lectures on Matrices