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Albrecht Pfister
Albrecht Pfister is a German mathematician at the University of Mainz known for Pfister forms and rebuilding the algebraic theory of quadratic forms in the 1960s.
Arthur Cohn
Arthur Cohn (1894–1940) was a German mathematician and student of Issai Schur, remembered for an irreducibility criterion for polynomials formed from the digits of a prime.
Cahit Arf
Cahit Arf (1910–1997) was a Turkish mathematician known for the Arf invariant, the Hasse–Arf theorem, and Arf rings, and for helping found TÜBİTAK, Turkey's national research council.
Charles Joubert
Charles Joubert (1825–1906) was a French mathematician and Jesuit priest, educated at the École normale supérieure and remembered for Joubert's 1867 theorem on the minimal polynomial of degree-six field extensions.
Dmitry Faddeev
Dmitry Faddeev, full name Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev, was a Soviet mathematician in algebra and number theory who founded the Leningrad algebraic school and was Ludwig Faddeev's father.
Ernst Steinitz
Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928) was a German mathematician born in Silesia whose 1910 paper founded abstract field theory, and who also proved the Steinitz exchange theorem.
Ernst Witt
Ernst Witt (1911–1991) was a German mathematician, born in Augustenburg and based at Hamburg, known for the Witt ring of quadratic forms, Witt vectors, and the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem.
Leonid Vaserstein
Leonid Vaserstein is a Russian-born mathematician, emeritus professor at Penn State, known for the stable rank of rings and the Wasserstein distance used in machine learning.
Tsit Yuen Lam
Tsit Yuen Lam (林节玄, born 1942) is a Hong Kong-born algebraist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for research on quadratic forms over fields, algebraic K-theory, and ring theory.
Zeng Jiongzhi
Zeng Jiongzhi (曾炯之) was a Chinese algebraist who studied in Germany, introduced the Zeng level hierarchy of fields, and helped bring Chinese mathematics into the world mainstream before dying in 1940.