Øystein Ore
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 Øystein Ore |
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| Born | October 7, 1899 Oslo, Norway |
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| Died | August 13, 1968 Oslo, Norway |
| Residence |  Norway USA |
| Nationality | Norway |
| Field | Mathematician |
| Institution | Oslo University Yale University |
| Alma Mater | University of Kristiania |
| Doctoral Advisor | Thoralf Skolem |
| Doctoral Students | Marshall Hall, Jr. |
| Known for | Non-commutative rings Lattice theory |
Øystein Ore (7 October 1899 Oslo Norway - 13 August 1968 Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician.
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[edit] Life
Ore graduated from the University of Oslo in 1922, with a first degree in mathematics. In 1924, the University of Oslo awarded him the Ph.D. for a thesis titled Zur Theorie der algebraischen Körper, supervised by Thoralf Skolem. Ore also studied at Göttingen University, where he discovered Emmy Noether's new approach to abstract algebra. He was also a fellow at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden, and spent some time at the University of Paris. In 1925, he was appointed research assistant at the University of Oslo.
Yale University’s James Pierpont went to Europe in 1926 seeking to recruit European research mathematicians. As a result, in 1927 Ore was appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Yale, rising to Associate Professor in 1928, and to full Professor in 1929. In 1931 he was made Sterling Professor at Yale, a position he held until his retirement in 1968.
Ore was an AMS Colloquium Lecturer in 1941. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Oslo Academy of Science. He was also among the founders of the Econometric Society.
Ore visited Norway nearly every summer. During World War II, he was active in the movements "American Relief for Norway" and "Free Norway". In gratitude for the services rendered to his native country during the War, he was decorated in 1947 with the Knight Order of St. Olav.
In 1930, Ore married Gudrun Lundevall; they had two children. He had a passion for painting and sculpture, collected ancient maps, and spoke several languages.
[edit] Work
Ore is primarily remembered for his work in ring theory, Galois connections, and most of all, graph theory. His early work was on algebraic number fields, how to decompose the ideal generated by a prime number into prime ideals. He then worked on non-commutative rings, proving his celebrated theorem on embedding a domain into a division ring. He then examined polynomial rings over skew fields, and attempted to extend his work on factorisation to non-commutative rings.
In 1930 the Collected Works of Richard Dedekind were published in three volumes, jointly edited by Ore and Emmy Noether. He then turned his attention to lattice theory becoming, together with Garrett Birkhoff, one of the two founders of American expertise in the subject. Ore's early work on lattice theory led him to the study of equivalence and closure relations, Galois connections, and finally to graph theory, which occupied him to the end of his life.
Ore had a lively interest in the history of mathematics, and was an unusually able author of books for laypeople, such as his biographies of Cardano and Niels Abel.
[edit] Books by Ore
- Les Corps Algébraique et la Theorie des Ideaux (1934)
- L'Algèbre Abstraite (1936)
- Number Theory and its History (1948)
- Cardano, the Gambling Scholar (Princeton University Press, 1953)
- Niels Henrik Abel, Mathematician Extraordinary (U. of Minnesota Press, 1957)
- Theory of Graphs (1962)
- Graphs and Their Uses (1963)
- The Four-Color Problem (1967)
- Invitation to Number Theory (1969)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Øystein Ore". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.. The source for much of this entry.
- Øystein Ore at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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| NAME | Ore, Øystein |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ore, Oystein |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Norwegian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo, Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1968 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Oslo, Norway |
