nLab Nathan Jacobson

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Nathan Jacobson was an American algebraist.

Jacobson radicals are named after him.

Proposition

(Jacobson’s lemma) If AA and BB are matrices over a field of characteristic 0 and AA commutes with ABBAA B - B A then ABBAA B - B A is nilpotent.

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Proving what came to be called the Jacobson-Morozov theorem:

On Lie algebras:

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