Wolfgang Krull

Wolfgang Krull, Göttingen 1920

Wolfgang Krull (26 August 1899 – 12 April 1971) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra, introducing concepts that are now central to the subject.

Krull was born and went to school in Baden-Baden. He attended the Universities of Freiburg, Rostock and finally Göttingen from 1919–1921, where he earned his doctorate under Alfred Loewy. He worked as an instructor and professor at Freiburg, then spent a decade at the University of Erlangen. In 1939, Krull moved to become chair at the University of Bonn, where he remained for the rest of his life. Wolfgang Krull was a member of the Nazi Party.

His 35 doctoral students include Wilfried Brauer, Karl-Otto Stöhr and Jürgen Neukirch.

See also

• Cohen structure theorem
• Jacobson ring
• Local ring
• Prime ideal
• Real algebraic geometry
• Regular local ring
• Valuation ring
• Krull dimension
• Krull ring
• Krull topology
• Krull–Azumaya theorem
• Krull–Schmidt category
• Krull–Schmidt theorem
• Krull's intersection theorem
• Krull's principal ideal theorem
• Krull's separation lemma
• Krull's theorem

Publications

• Krull, Wolfgang (1935), Idealtheorie, Ergebnisse der Mathematik, Springer
• Krull, Wolfgang (1999), Ribenboim, Paulo (ed.), Gesammelte Abhandlungen/Collected papers. Vol. 1, 2 (in German), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., ISBN 978-3-11-012771-3, MR 1711477

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wolfgang Krull", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Wolfgang Krull at the Mathematics Genealogy Project