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Richard Dagobert Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer
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:317-25, 337-42 and reprinted with permission of the London Mathematical Society. Bracketed numbers refer to entries in the bibliography at the end of this memoir.
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In the customary postscript to his cloctoral dissertation Aid, Brauer mentions particularly Bieberbach, von Mises, E Schmidt en c!
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On September 17,1925 Richard Brauer married Ilse Karger, a fellow-stuclent whom he hac! first met in November 1920 at Schur's lecture course on number theory.
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In t4] , he and Emmy Noether characterized Schur's "splitting fielcis" of a given irreclucible representation r of a given finite dimensional algebra, in terms of the division algebra associates!
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In April the new Nazi regime began to implement its notorious antisemitic policies with a series of laws clesignec! to remove Jews from the "intellectual professions" such as the civil service, the law en c!
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Brauer a visiting professorship for one year at the University of Kentucky. He arrived in Lexington in November 1933, speaking very little English, but aIreacly with a reputation as one of the most promising young mathematicians of his clay.
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Emmy Noether was another refugee from Nazism, and held a post as visiting professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, from 1933 until her death in the spring of 1935. It was a result of the account of him given by Emmy Noether when she visitor!
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Professor Brauer generously ascribes! joint authorship to several papers that came out of these discussions but my part was more that of interested auditor." One of these joint papers with Nesbitt "On the moclular characters of groups" t34]
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the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize in 1949. Artin en c!
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of the oIc! conjecture of Burnsicle that every non-Abelian finite simple group has even order.
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They regularly spent summer vacations at Pontresina in Switzerland with C
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to the hospital again. He was suffering from aplastic anaemia, a condition in which the belly no longer produces enough blood cells, and consequently loses its natural defenses against
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The progress of this "modular" theory of group representations shows all of Brauer's remarkable mathematical qualities at work. Frobenius en c!
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moclular theory as a way of obtaining refinec! "local" information on the ordinary character table of G-his beautiful theory of blocks being the principal means to this end.
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societies Royal Society of Canada 1945 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1954 National Academy of Sciences 1955 London Mathematical Society (Honorary Member)
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Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1941-42 Cole Prize (American Mathematical Society) 1949 National Mecial for Scientific Merit 1971 HONORARY DOCTORATES University of Waterloo, Ontario 1968 University of Chicago 1969 University of Notre Dame, Indiana 1974 Brancleis University, Massachusetts 1975 PRESIDENCIES OF MATHEMATICAE SOCIETIES Canaclian Mathematical Congress 1957-58 American Mathematical Society 1959-60 EDITORSHIPS OF LEARNED JOURNALS Transactions of the Canaclian Mathematical Congress 1943-49 American Journal of Mathematics 1944-50 Canaclian Journal of Mathematics 1949-59 Duke Mathematical Journal 1951-56, 1963-69 Annals of Mathematics 1953-60 Proceedings of the Canaclian Mathematical Congress 1954-57 Journal of Algebra 1964-70
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I Schur, "Neue Anwendungen der Integralrechnung auf Probleme der Invariantentheorie", Sitz.
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1. "Uber die Darstellung der Drehungsgruppe durch Gruppen linearer Substitutionen".
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Invarianten von linearer Gruppen endlicher Ordnung", accepted for publication ~ 1936) in Enzyklopadie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften vol.
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37. "On the connection between the ordinary and the modular characters of groups of finite order", Ann.
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65. "Zur Darstellungstheorie der Gruppen endlicher Ordnung", Math.
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73. "Zur Darstellungstheorie der Gruppen endlicher Ordnung II", Math.
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90. "On finite desarguesian planes II", Math.
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1 1 1. "On finite desarguesian planes III ", Math.
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RICHARD DAGOBERT BRAUER 95 121. "Some applications of the theory of blocks of characters of finite groups V", J
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