Max August Zorn

Max August Zorn is an German-born American mathematician born on June 6, 1906, died on March 9, 1993.

He was an algebraist, [group theorist]?, and numerical analyst.

He is famous for Zorn's lemma, a powerful tool in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, [ordered sets]?, etc.

He was a professor at [Indiana University]? from 1946 until his death.

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