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Ernst Witt was born on 26 June, 1911 in Alsen, German Empire (present-day Denmark), is an A 20th-century german mathematician. Discover Ernst Witt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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26 June, 1911 |
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26 June |
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Alsen, German Empire (present-day Denmark) |
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3 July, 1991 |
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Hamburg, Germany |
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Denmark
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Ernst Witt (26 June 1911 – 3 July 1991) was a German mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time.
Witt was born on the island of Alsen, then a part of the German Empire.
Shortly after his birth, his parents moved the family to China to work as missionaries, and he did not return to Europe until he was nine.
After his schooling, Witt went to the University of Freiburg and the University of Göttingen.
He joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and was an active party member.
During World War II he joined a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Georg Aumann, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmüller, Johann Friedrich Schultze and their leader professor Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s that would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr. OKW/Chi).
Witt was awarded a Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen in 1934 with a thesis titled: "Riemann-Roch theorem and zeta-Function in hypercomplexes" (Riemann-Rochscher Satz und Zeta-Funktion im Hyperkomplexen) that was supervised by Gustav Herglotz, with Emmy Noether suggesting the topic for the doctorate.
He qualified to become a lecturer and gave guest lectures in Göttingen and Hamburg.
He became associated with the team led by Helmut Hasse who led his habilitation.
In June 1936, he gave his habilitation lecture.
From 1937 until 1979, he taught at the University of Hamburg.
In the 1970s, Witt claimed that in 1940 he had discovered what would eventually be named the "Leech lattice" many years before John Leech discovered it in 1965, but Witt did not publish his discovery and the details of exactly what he did are unclear.
He died in Hamburg in 1991, shortly after his 80th birthday.
Witt's work has been highly influential.
His invention of the Witt vectors clarifies and generalizes the structure of the p-adic numbers.
It has become fundamental to p-adic Hodge theory.
Witt was the founder of the theory of quadratic forms over an arbitrary field.
He proved several of the key results, including the Witt cancellation theorem.
He defined the Witt ring of all quadratic forms over a field, now a central object in the theory.
The Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem is basic to the study of Lie algebras.
In algebraic geometry, the Hasse–Witt matrix of an algebraic curve over a finite field determines the cyclic étale coverings of degree p of a curve in characteristic p.
