Mathematician:Issai Schur
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Mathematician
Jewish mathematician of Russian descent working mainly in group theory and combinatorics.
Worked most of his life in Germany, then emigrated to Palestine in 1939 as a result of political persecution, and died a pauper.
Nationality
Russian
History
- Born: January 10, 1875, Mogilev, Belarus
- Died: January 10, 1941, Tel Aviv, Palestine (now Israel)
Theorems and Definitions
- Schur Complement
- Schur-Convex Function
- Schur-Concave Function
- Schur Index
- Schur Indicator (also known as Frobenius-Schur Indicator, with Ferdinand Georg Frobenius)
- Schur Multiplier
- Schur Polynomial
- Schur Product (also known as the Hadamard Product)
- Skew Schur Function
- Schur Orthogonality Relations
- Schur Test
- Schur's Inequality
- Schur's Theorem (Ramsey Theory)
- Lehmer-Schur Algorithm (with Derrick Henry Lehmer)
- Schur's Property for Normed Spaces
- Jordan-Schur Theorem (with Camille Jordan)
- Schur's Lemma (Representation Theory)
- Schur's Lemma (Riemannian Geometry)
- Schur-Zassenhaus Theorem (with Hans Zassenhaus)
Results named for Issai Schur can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Issai Schur can be found here.
Publications
- 1904: Über die Darstellung der endlichen Gruppen durch gebrochene lineare Substitutionen
- 1905: Neue Begründung der Theorie der Gruppencharaktere
- 1907: Untersuchungen über die Darstellung der endlichen Gruppen durch gebrochene lineare Substitutionen
- 1911: Bemerkungen zur Theorie der Beschränkten Bilinearformen mit unendlich vielen Veränderlichen
- 1918: Co-founder of Mathematische Zeitschrift, with Konrad Knopp and Erhard Schmidt
- 1921: Über lineare Transformationen in der Theorie der unendlichen Reihen
- 1968: Vorlesungen über Invariantentheorie, Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften (as editor) (with Helmut Grunsky)