A Brief History of an Important Classical Theorem
Advances in Group Theory and Applications c 2016 AGTA - www.advgrouptheory.com/journal 2 (2016), pp. 121–124 ISSN: 2499-1287 DOI: 10.4399/97888548970148 A Brief History of an Important Classical Theorem L.A. Kurdachenko — I.Ya.Subbotin (Received Nov. 6, 2016 – Communicated by Francesco de Giovanni) Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 20F14, 20F19 Keywords: Schur theorem; Baer theorem; Neumann theorem This note is a by-product of the authors’ investigation of relations between the lower and upper central series in a group. There are some famous theorems laid at the foundation of any research in this area. These theorems are so well-known that, by the established tra- dition, they usually were named in honor of the mathematicians who first formulated and proved them. However, this did not always hap- pened. Our intention here is to talk about one among the fundamen- tal results of infinite group theory which is linked to Issai Schur. Issai Schur (January 10, 1875 in Mogilev, Belarus — January 10, 1941 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was a very famous mathematician who proved many important and interesting results, first in algebra and number theory. There is a biography sketch of I. Schur wonderfully written by J.J. O’Connor and E.F. Robertson [6]. The authors documented that I. Schur actively and successfully worked in many branches of mathematics, such as for example, finite groups, matrices, alge- braic equations (where he gave examples of equations with alterna- ting Galois groups), number theory, divergent series, integral equa- tions, function theory. We cannot add anything important to this, saturated with factual and emotional details, article of O’Connor 122 L.A.
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