Laszlo Fuchs
Laszlo Fuchs · Science & Medicine
Theory of abelian groups and modules
1924, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary · United States
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Fuchs is a Hungarian-American mathematician regarded as the leading authority on the theory of abelian groups and modules, whose treatise Infinite Abelian Groups became the standard reference. A survivor of persecution in wartime Hungary, he taught for decades at Tulane University. He is Jewish and turned 100 in 2024.
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Theory of abelian groups and modules
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