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Otto Schreier (born March 3, 1901 in Vienna, Austria; died June 2, 1929 in Hamburg, Germany) was an Austrian mathematician who made major contributions in combinatorial group theory. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1923. He then moved to the University of Hamburg. March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya;) Vienna is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Alster Lake at dusk Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and with Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ... A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is mathematics. ... Geometric group theory and combinatorial group theory are two closely related branches of mathematics, which study infinite discrete groups. ... University of Vienna, main building, seen from Beethovens apartment The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) in Austria was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina. ... The University of Hamburg was founded on the 1 April 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. ...


Results and concepts named after Otto Schreier

The Cayley graph of the free group on two generators a and b In mathematics, a group G is called free if there is a subset S of G such that any element of G can be written in one and only one way as a product of finitely many... In mathematics, the Schreier refinement theorem of group theory states that any two normal towers of subgroups, ending with the trivial group, have equivalent refinements. ... In mathematics, a real closed field is an ordered field F in which any of the following equivalent conditions are true: Every non-negative element of F has a square root in F, and any polynomial of odd degree with coefficients in F has at least one root in F... Schreiers subgroup lemma is a theorem in group theory used in the Schreier-Sims algorithm and also for finding a presentation of a subgroup. ... The Schreier-Sims algorithm is an efficient method of computing a strong generating set (SGS) of a permutation group. ...

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