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Issai Schur

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Issai Schur

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German mathematician (1875–1941)

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  • Über Einen Satz Von C. Carathéodory
  • Über die Minkowskische Reduktionstheorie der Positiven Quadratischen Formen
  • Über die Äquivalenz der Gruppen Linearer Substitutionen
  • Gesammelte Abhandlungen III
  • Gesammelte Abhandlungen I

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Key facts

Born
( 1875-01-10 ) 10 January 1875, Mahilyow , Russian Empire (now Belarus )
Died
10 January 1941 (1941-01-10) (aged 66), Tel Aviv , Mandatory Palestine
Known for
Schur decomposition Schur's lemma Schur complement
Fields
Mathematics
Doctoral advisor
Georg Frobenius Lazarus Fuchs
Doctoral students
Richard Brauer Robert Frucht Maximilian Herzberger Eberhard Hopf Bernhard Neumann Rose Peltesohn Heinz Prüfer Richard Rado Isaac Jacob Schoenberg Arnold Scholz Wilhelm Specht Karl Dörge Wolfgang Hahn

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Encyclopedic overview

Issai Schur (10 January 1875 – 10 January 1941) was a Russian mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life. He studied at the University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1901, became lecturer in 1903 and, after a stay at the University of Bonn, professor in 1919.

As a student of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, he worked on group representations (the subject with which he is most closely associated), but also in combinatorics and number theory and even theoretical physics. He is perhaps best known today for his result on the existence of the Schur decomposition and for his work on group representations (Schur's lemma).

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