Karl Gruenberg

Karl Walter Gruenberg (born June 3, 1928 in Vienna , † October 10, 2007 in London ) was a British mathematician.

Karl W. Gruenberg (center) with Kurt Hirsch (left) and Richard Bruck in 1960

As a Jew, Gruenberg was sent from Austria to Great Britain in 1939 by his mother, who soon followed him ( Kindertransport ). From 1943 he was in London and began studying mathematics on a scholarship at Magdalen College, Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1954 with Philip Hall ( A Contribution to the Theory of Commutators in Groups and Associative Rings ). He had previously published several papers and became an assistant lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he remained for the rest of his career. 1955 to 1956 he was with a Commonwealth Fellowship at Harvard University and 1956/57 at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1961 he became a reader and in 1967 professor at Queen Mary College, where he was head of the department of pure mathematics from 1973 to 1978. In Germany he organized the group theory conferences with Bertram Huppert and Wolfgang Gaschütz for many years at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach .

Gruenberg dealt with group theory , in particular with the cohomology theory of groups.

He had been a British citizen since 1948. He was married twice and had a daughter and a son.

Fonts (selection)

• Some cohomological notes in group theory , Queen Mary College Math. Notes, 1968
• Relation modules of finite groups , CBMS Regional Conf. Series Math., American Mathematical Society 1976
• with AJ Weir Linear Geometry , Van Nostrand 1967, 2nd edition, Springer 1977

In 1988 he edited the collected works of his teacher Philip Hall with JE Roseblade.

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Karl Gruenberg. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
• Obituary in the Guardian
• Literature by and about Karl Gruenberg in the bibliographic database WorldCat