# Mathematician:Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn

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## Mathematician

Scottish mathematician most famous for his work in abstract algebra.

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

Results named for Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn can be found here.

## Publications

• 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 $g \left({x^2}\right) = 2 a x + \left[{g \left({x}\right)}\right]^2$ (Ann. Math. Vol. 24: 121 – 140)
• 1934: Lectures on Matrices