From FLT to finite groups -- the remarkable career of Otto Grün (Q2570242): Difference between revisions

Otto Grün (1888--1974) is best known for two theorems in group theory; these owe part of their fame to Zassenhaus, who included them in his influential textbook on group theory [Lehrbuch der Gruppentheorie (1937; Zbl 0018.00901); Engl. transl. (1949; Zbl 0041.00704)]. Grün was a self-taught amateur who had worked through Hasse's report on class field theory, certainly no small achievement for someone who had never attended a university; his first efforts in the early 1930s deal with Fermat's Last Theorem and class number divisibility. These investigations then led to problems in group theory and ultimately to ``Grün's theorems''. Grün received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1947 at the age of 60. In this article, Roquette gives a detailed account of Grün's life and work, mainly based on Grün's correspondence with Helmut Hasse.