Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland).

Mathematician

Lasker was also a distinguished mathematician. He performed his doctoral studies at Erlangen from 1900 to 1902 under David Hilbert. His doctoral thesis,

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Erlangen - 1900 - 1902 - David Hilbert

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Über Reihen auf der Convergenzgrenze, was published in Philosophical Transactions in 1901.

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Philosophical Transactions - 1901

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Lasker introduced the concept of a primary ideal, which extends the notion of a power of a prime number to algebraic geometry. He is most famous for his 1905 paper Zur Theorie der Moduln und Ideale, which appeared in Mathematische Annalen. In this paper, he established what is now known as the Lasker-Noether theorem for the special case of ideals in polynomial rings.

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Primary ideal - Power - Prime number - Algebraic geometry - 1905 - Mathematische Annalen - Lasker-Noether theorem - Ideals - Polynomial ring

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