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Reinhold Baer

was born 122 years ago

22 July 1902

Reinhold Baer's mathematical work was wide ranging; topology, abelian groups and geometry. His most important work, however, was in group theory, on the extension problem for groups, finiteness conditions, soluble and nilpotent groups.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Baer/