Biography:Wolfgang Krull

Short description: German mathematician (1899–1971)

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 not 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. (in German), Gesammelte Abhandlungen/Collected papers. Vol. 1, 2, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., ISBN 978-3-11-012771-3, https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3110127717 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wolfgang Krull", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Krull.html .
• Wolfgang Krull at the Mathematics Genealogy Project