Ernst Steinitz worked on the theory of fields. He was born in Laurahütte, Silesia, Germany (now Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland) on 13 June 1871 and died in Kiel on 29 September 1928. His abstract treatment of fields classified the possible types of field and showed how each is built from simpler ones, and it shaped the way algebra was taught for the next century. He is connected with the polyhedron theorem that bears his name and with the conceptual organisation of abstract algebra around structures such as fields.
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Born 13 June 1871 Laurahütte, Silesia, Germany (now Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland)
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Ernst Steinitz worked on the theory of fields.
Steinitz exchange lemma, Wikipedia
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The result is named after the German mathematician Ernst Steinitz.
Primitive element theorem (Wikipedia)
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The primitive element theorem was proved in its modern form by Ernst Steinitz, in an influential article on field theory in 1910, which also contains Steinitz's theorem; Steinitz called the "classical" result Theorem of the primitive elements and his modern version Theorem of the intermediate fields.
Steinitz's theorem (Wikipedia)
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The theorem appears in a 1922 publication of Ernst Steinitz, after whom it is named.
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