Wilhelm Magnus

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Wilhelm_Magnus
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Frankfurt
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:Leroy_P._Steele_Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1907-02-05
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Berlin,_Germany
gptkbp:deathDate 1990-10-15
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:New_Rochelle,_New_York,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Max_Dehn
gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:Lie_algebras
group theory
partial differential equations
combinatorial group theory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Wilhelm Magnus
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Magnus_embedding
gptkb:Magnus_expansion
work on free groups
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society
gptkb:German_Mathematical_Society
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:German
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Gilbert_Baumslag
gptkb:John_G._Thompson
gptkb:Joan_Birman
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:mathematician
gptkbp:publishedWork "A Short Course in Symmetric Functions"
"Noneuclidean Tesselations and Their Groups"
"Combinatorial Group Theory: Presentations of Groups in Terms of Generators and Relations"
gptkbp:workInstitution gptkb:Courant_Institute_of_Mathematical_Sciences
gptkb:Illinois_Institute_of_Technology
gptkb:New_York_University
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Max_Dehn
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4