Helmut Wielandt

Helmut Wielandt

Helmut Wielandt (19 December 1910 Niedereggenen, Lörrach, Germany – 14 February 2001) was a German mathematician who worked on permutation groups.

See also

• Collatz–Wielandt formula

Publications

• Wielandt, Helmut (1964), Finite permutation groups, Boston, MA: Academic Press, MR 0183775
• Wielandt, Helmut (1994), Huppert, Bertram; Schneider, Hans, eds., Mathematische Werke/Mathematical works. Vol. 1. Group theory, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., ISBN 978-3-11-012452-1, MR 1272467
• Wielandt, Helmut (1996), Huppert, Bertram; Schneider, Hans, eds., Mathematische Werke/Mathematical works. Vol. 2. Linear algebra and analysis, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., ISBN 978-3-11-012453-8, MR 1430098

Among his work in Algebra is an elegant proof of the Sylow Theorems (replacing an older cumbersome proof involving double cosets) that is in the standard textbooks on Abstract Algebra, ie Group Theory.

References

• Deutsch, E.; Hadeler, K. P.; Laffey, Thomas J. (1985), "Helmut Wielandt", Linear Algebra and its Applications 71: 1–8, doi:10.1016/0024-3795(85)90228-9, ISSN 0024-3795, MR 813026
• Huppert, Bertram (2001), "Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Dr. hc. Helmut Wielandt", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 103 (3): 74–78, ISSN 0012-0456
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Helmut Wielandt", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

External links

• Curriculum vitae from Mathematische Werke, Bd. 1
• Oberwolfach Photo Collection
• Prof. Dr. Helmut Wielandt
• Literature by and about Helmut Wielandt in the German National Library catalogue