Heinz Prüfer

Heinz Prüfer (1930).

Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer (10 November 1896–7 April 1934) was a German mathematician, who worked on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm-Liouville theory. His advisor was Issai Schur.

See also

• Prüfer manifold
• Prüfer sequence (also known as Prüfer code).
• Prüfer rank
• Prüfer group
• Prüfer domain
• Prüfer theorems

References

• Behnke, H.; Köthe, G. (1935), "Heinz Prüfer", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung XLV: 32–40, http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN37721857X_0045 
• Mader, Adolf (1987), "Heinz Prüfer and his papers on abelian groups", in Rüdiger Göbel, Elbert Walker, Abelian group theory: proceedings of the Third Conference on Abelian Group Theory at Oberwolfach, August 11-17, 1985, Gordon and Breach, pp. 1–8, ISBN 978-2-88124-166-6, MR1011302, http://books.google.com/books?isbn=2881241662 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Heinz Prüfer", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Prufer.html .
• Heinz Prüfer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.