Otto Schreier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Schreier

Austrian mathematician

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1901

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 02-Jun-1929

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Otto Schreier (3 March 1901 in Vienna, Austria – 2 June 1929 in Hamburg, Germany) was a Jewish-Austrian mathematician who made major contributions in combinatorial group theory and in the topology of Lie groups.
He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1923, under the supervision of Philipp Furtwängler.
He then moved to the University of Hamburg.