Although mental illness cut his career somewhat short, Joseph Henry Maclagen Wedderburn made important contributions to algebra and wrote extensively on matrices. He taught at Princeton University for many years. The son of a physician, Wedderburn was...

1882-1948 Scottish mathematician who achieved international prominence with his 1907 paper on the classification of semisimple algebras, in which he showed that a simple algebra was a matrix algebra over a division ring. After earning a degree in...

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn (2 February 1882 Forfar, Angus, Scotland – 9 October 1948, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a...