Gottfried Köthe

Gottfried Köthe
Gottfried Köthe, Elisabeth Hagemann, Otto Toeplitz, 1930
Born(1905-12-25)25 December 1905
Graz
Died30 April 1989(1989-04-30) (aged 83)
Frankfurt
Known forKöthe conjecture
Nilradical of a ring
Serial rings
Topological vector space
AwardsICM Speaker (1928, 1932, 1936)
Scientific career
Thesis Beiträge zu Finslers Grundlegung der Mengenlehre  (1927)
Doctoral advisors
Anton Rella
Robert von Sterneck
Doctoral students
Elisabeth Hagemann,
Werner Hildenbrand,
Tosun Terzioğlu,
Joseph Wloka

Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe (25 December 1905 – 30 April 1989) was an Austrian mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis.