References for Ernst Witt
Books:
- I Kersten (ed.), Ernst Witt : gesammelte Abhandlungen (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996).
- S L Segal, Mathematicians under the Nazis (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003).
Articles:
- P-P, Grivel, Une histoire du théorème de Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt, Expo. Math. 22 (2) (2004), 145-184.
- G Harder, Wittvektoren, Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 99 (1) (1997), 18-48.
- G Harder, Witt vectors, in Ernst Witt : gesammelte Abhandlungen (Berlin, 1996).
- I Kersten, Ernst Witt 1911-1991 (German), Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 95 (4) (1993), 166-180.
- I Kersten, Biography of Ernst Witt (1911-1991), in Quadratic forms and their applications, Dublin, 1999 (Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2000), 155-171.
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/books/dublin.pdf
- I Kersten, Ernst Witt - ein grosser Mathematiker, DMV-Mitteilungen 2 (1995), 28-30.
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