Mathematician:Bernhard Hermann Neumann
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Mathematician
German-born mathematician who was one of the leaders in the field of group theory.
Husband of Hanna Neumann and father of Peter Michael Neumann.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 15 October 1909, Berlin, Germany
- 1933: Moved to Cambridge, UK, via Amsterdam.
- 1938: Married Hanna Neumann.
- 1959: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
- 1962: Moved to Australia.
- 1963: Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences.
- 1994: Appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
- Died: 20 October 2002, Canberra, Australia
Theorems and Definitions
- Petr-Douglas-Neumann Theorem (also known as the PDN-Theorem) (independently of both Karel Petr and Jesse Douglas)
- HNN Extension (named after Graham Higman, Bernhard Hermann Neumann and Hanna Neumann)
Results named for Bernhard Hermann Neumann can be found here.
Publications
- 1949: Embedding theorems for groups (with Graham Higman and Hanna Neumann)
- 1960: Lectures on topics in the theory of infinite groups
- 1973: Byron's daughter (biography about Ada Lovelace)