Paul Moritz Cohn
Paul Moritz Cohn · Science & Medicine
Algebra; theory of free rings and skew fields
1924, Hamburg, Germany — 2006, London, England
Germany · United Kingdom
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Cohn, a German-born British Jewish mathematician who reached England on the Kindertransport after fleeing Nazi Germany (his parents were murdered in the Holocaust), was a leading algebraist. He is known for his deep work on the theory of free rings, skew fields, and non-commutative algebra, and for authoritative textbooks on algebra. He spent much of his career at University College London.
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Algebra; theory of free rings and skew fields
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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