Irving Reiner | |
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| Born | 8 February 1924 |
| Died | 28 October 1986 (aged 62) Urbana, Illinois, US |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (Ph.D., 1947) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Illinois |
| Thesis | A Generalization of Meyer's Theorem (1947) |
| Doctoral advisor | Burton Wadsworth Jones |
Irving Reiner (February 8, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York – October 28, 1986 in Urbana, Illinois) was a mathematician at the University of Illinois who worked on representation theory. He solved the problem of finding which abelian groups have a finite number of indecomposable modules. His book with Charles W. Curtis, (Curtis & Reiner 1962), was for many years the standard text on representation theory.