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A summary of Zassenhaus's contributions to the computation of such invariants as the Galois group, an integral basis, the unit group, and the class group is given by one of his main collaborators [\textit{M. Pohst} and \textit{H. Zassenhaus}, Algorithmic algebraic number theory, Cambridge Univ. Press (1989; Zbl 0685.12001)]. Characteristically, Zassenhaus used many algorithms for each invariant: For the Galois group he approximated below by factoring the defining equation modulo various primes to get the cycle structure, and from above by discriminant-like invariants. For the basis, he approximated by several uses of the conductor-concept. For the units and class number, he used Minkowski parallelotopes parallel to advantageously chosen axes. The simplest results come from the GRH which states that the prime class generators have norm \(<(\log (\text{disc})^2)\), but alternate non-GRH methods were supplied. His contribution was much more than lending his prestige. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0856.00054].