Which mathematician contributed most to the decidability of various algebraic groups, Anatoly Maltsev or Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin?
Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin Semyon Aronovich Gershgorin (August 24, 1901 – May 30, 1933) was a Soviet (born in Pruzhany, Belarus, Russian Empire) mathematician. He began as a student at the Petrograd Technological Institute in 1923, became a Professor in 1930, and was given an appointment at the Leningrad Mechanical Engineering Institute in the same year. His contributions include the Gershgorin circle theorem.
Kummer theory In abstract algebra and number theory, Kummer theory provides a description of certain types of field extensions involving the adjunction of "n"th roots of elements of the base field. The theory was originally developed by Ernst Eduard Kummer around the 1840s in his pioneering work on Fermat's last theorem. The main statements do not depend on the nature of the field - apart from its characteristic, which should not divide the integer "n" – and therefore belong to abstract algebra. The theory of cyclic extensions of the field "K" when the characteristic of "K" does divide "n" is called Artin–Schreier theory.