Joseph Wedderburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Wedderburn

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1882

Place of Birth: Forfar, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Oct-1948

Profession: engineer, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882, Forfar, Angus, Scotland – 9 October 1948, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career.
A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra.His younger brother was the lawyer Ernest Wedderburn.