Wilhelm Grunwald (15 July 1909 – 7 June 1989) was a German mathematician who introduced the Grunwald–Wang theorem, though his original statement and proof of this contained a small error that was corrected by Shianghao Wang. He later left mathematics to become a science librarian, and was director of the Göttingen university library (Roquette 2005, p.29).
References
- Grunwald, W. (1933), "Ein allgemeiner Existenzsatz für algebraische Zahlkörper", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 169: 103–107
- Roquette, Peter (2005), The Brauer–Hasse–Noether theorem in historical perspective (PDF), Schriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften , vol. 15, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-23005-2
- Wilhelm Grunwald at the Mathematics Genealogy Project