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Chiungtze C. Tsen (1898-1940) and Tsen’s theorems. (English) Zbl 0955.01031

Chiungtze Tsen is one of the many forgotten mathematicians. Clearly he was a patriot who repaid his debt to his country, accepting fellowships to go overseas and then teaching under the appalling conditions of China in 1935-1940 during the civil and world wars. Just as clearly his potential remained unfulfilled: in Göttingen of the 1930s with Emmy Noether, Friedrich Schmidt, Emil Artin, Hermann Weyl, David Hilbert and Ernst Witt, and all the rest of “Emmy’s boys”, he was at the forefront of the then modern algebra. The article gives the biographical details and a thorough discussion of Tsen’s two papers (1933; Zbl 0007.29401, 1936; Zbl 0015.38803) and his thesis (Göttingen 1934; Zbl 0010.19601). Tsen focussed on the structure of central simple algebras, while Brauer and Hasse concentrated on their use. There is a detailed discussion of Germany of 1932-1935, and some selected pieces on China 1920-1940. There are nearly 100 items in the bibliography.

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01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

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Tsen, C. C.
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