nLab Joseph Wedderburn

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn was a Scottish-American mathematician, mainly dedicated to algebra. The Wedderburn-Artin theorem is named after him.

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Selected works

Proving what came to be called the Wedderburn-Artin theorem:

• Joseph H. M. Wedderburn: On hypercomplex numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc. s2-6 1 (1908) 77-118 [doi:10.1112/plms/s2-6.1.77]

See also:

• Joseph H. M. Wedderburn, Algebras which do not posses a finite basis, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 26 4 (1924) 395-426 [doi:10.2307/1989133]

  (By axioms of “linear associative algebra” proposed in this work he meant what nowadays are called nonunital rings.)

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