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Emil Artin
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Emil Artin was an Austrian–Hungarian, American, Austrian, and German mathematician and university teacher. Born in Vienna in 1898 and dying in Hamburg in 1962, he worked in algebra, mathematics, algebraic number theory, and class field theory. He held citizenship in Austria–Hungary, the United States, Austria, and Germany. Artin was educated at the University of Vienna, Leipzig University, and the University of Göttingen, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy and a habilitation. His doctoral advisors were Gustav Herglotz and Otto Hölder.
He taught at Princeton University, the University of Hamburg, the University of Notre Dame, and Indiana University. Artin was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. He received the Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His doctoral students included Serge Lang, David Gilbarg, Hans Zassenhaus, and Arthur Mattuck. He spoke German and English.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1898-03-03 ) March 3, 1898, Vienna , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- December 20, 1962 (1962-12-20) (aged 64), Hamburg , West Germany
- Alma mater
- University of Vienna , University of Leipzig
- Known for
- Abstract algebra , List of things named after Emil Artin
- Spouse
- Natascha Artin Brunswick
- Awards
- Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award (1932)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Hamburg , University of Notre Dame , Indiana University , Princeton University
- Doctoral advisor
- Gustav Herglotz , Otto Ludwig Hölder
- Doctoral students
- Nesmith Ankeny , Karel deLeeuw , Bernard Dwork , David Gilbarg , David K. Harrison , Serge Lang , A. Murray MacBeath , Arthur Mattuck , O. Timothy O'Meara , Kollagunta Ramanathan , John Tate , Hans Zassenhaus , Max Zorn
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emil
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Hamburg
- Spouse
- Natascha Artin Brunswick
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Göttingen
- Employer
- Austro-Hungarian Army
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- German
- Academic degree
- habilitation
- Doctoral advisor
- Otto Hölder
- Doctoral student
- Max August Zorn
- Field of work
- ring
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- EmilArtin.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1898-03-03
- date of death
- 1962-12-20
- Erdős number
- 2
- Commons category
- Emil Artin (mathematician)
- name in native language
- Emil Artin
- relative
- John Tate
- unmarried partner
- Hel Braun
- student
- Lev Arkadyevich Kaluzhnin
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- base salary
- 8000
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- interested in
- algebraic number theory
- archives at
- Göttingen State and University Library
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Encyclopedic overview
Emil Artin ( German: [ˈaʁtiːn]; March 3, 1898 – December 20, 1962) was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent.
Artin was one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. He is best known for his work on algebraic number theory, contributing largely to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
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