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Reinhold Baer

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Reinhold Baer · Science & Medicine

What

Group theory; Baer groups and injective modules

When

1902, Berlin, Germany — 1979, Zurich, Switzerland

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Reinhold Baer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Group theory; Baer groups and injective modules

How & why

Reinhold Baer was a German mathematician known for foundational contributions to group theory and abstract algebra, including Baer groups, Baer's criterion for injective modules, and work on the geometry of projective planes. He was Jewish and left Germany after the Nazis came to power, working for years in the United States before returning to Germany.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Group theory; Baer groups and injective modules

1902

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics