Wolfgang Gröbner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wolfgang Gröbner

Austrian mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1899

Place of Birth: Gossensass, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1980

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Wolfgang Gröbner (11 February 1899 – 20 August 1980) was an Austrian mathematician.
His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry.
However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner.