Wilhelm Specht

Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht ( born September 22, 1907 in Rastatt, † 19 February 1985) was a German mathematician who worked on group theory.

Life and work

Woodpecker was in Berlin- Wilmersdorf to school and studied from 1925 at the Ludwig -Maximilians University and the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. Since 1926 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich. He received his doctorate in 1932 Isay Schur and Erhard Schmidt.

As an assistant, he went in 1934 at the Albertus University of Königsberg and 1937 assistant at the University of Breslau, where he habilitated in the same year and then was a lecturer until the war ended. After the war he was at the University of Erlangen, 1948 with interim appointment as professor and from 1950 as a Full Professor of Applied Mathematics ( the chair was re-created ). He remained there until his retirement in 1972.

Specht dealt among other things with the representation theory of the symmetric group, where the named after him Specht modules ( introduced in 1935 ) play an important role. He wrote in 1956 a textbook on group theory for the fundamental doctrines series of Springer-Verlag.

Writings

• Group theory. Basic teachings of the mathematical sciences. Springer, 1956.
• Elementary proofs of the prime sentences. German Academic Publishers, Berlin 1956.
• Algebraic equations with real or complex coefficients. Encyclopedia of mathematical sciences. In 1958.