doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students article_title name alma_mater
l. e. dickson chicago 06 june 1972 chicago cole prize -lrb- 1939 -rrb- american mathematics columbia university university of chicago 09 november 1905 albert algebras richard block nathan divinsky murray gerstenhaber anatol rapaport abraham adrian albert
 a. a. albert university of chicago
abraham adrian albert

abraham adrian albert -lrb- november 9 , 1905 -- june 6 , 1972 -rrb- was an american mathematician .
in 1939 , he received the american mathematical society 's cole prize in algebra for his work on riemann matrices .
he is best known for his work on the albert -- brauer -- hasse -- noether theorem on finite-dimensional division algebras over number fields and as the developer of albert algebras , which are also known as exceptional jordan algebras .
