Wolfgang Gaschütz is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Wolfgang Gaschütz as German mathematician (1920–2016).
Wolfgang Gaschütz was born in 1920. His recorded nationality is Germany. He studied at Kiel University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at Kiel University and Wehrmacht.
The recorded fields of work are group theory.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Germany matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Wolfgang Gaschütz died in 2016, aged 96. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Kiel University and Wehrmacht
- Fields: group theory
