Editing Max August Zorn (section)

{{Short description|German mathematician (1906–1993)}}
{{Distinguish|Max Zorn (artist)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Max August Zorn
| image             = Zorn,Max August 1930 Jena.jpg <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)-->
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| caption           = Zorn in 1930
| birth_date        = {{birth date |1906|6|6|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Krefeld]], [[Rhine Province|Rhenish Prussia]], Germany
| death_date        = {{death date and age |1993|3|9 |1906|6|6}}
| death_place       = [[Bloomington, Indiana]], U.S.
| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]]<br />[[University of California, Los Angeles]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of Hamburg]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Emil Artin]] <!--(or  | doctoral_advisors = )-->
| doctoral_students = [[Israel Nathan Herstein]]
| thesis_title      = Theorie Der Alternativen Ringe
| thesis_year       = 1930
| known_for         = [[Zorn ring]]<br/>[[Zorn's lemma]]<br />{{no wrap|[[Split-octonion#Zorn's_vector-matrix_algebra|Zorn's vector-matrix algebra]]s}}<br>[[Artin–Zorn theorem]]
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}}

'''Max August Zorn''' ({{IPA|de|tsɔʁn|lang}}; June 6, 1906 – March 9, 1993) was a German [[mathematician]]. He was an [[Abstract Algebra|algebraist]], [[group (mathematics)|group theorist]], and [[numerical analysis|numerical analyst]]. He is best known for [[Zorn's lemma]], a method used in [[set theory]] that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as [[vector space]]s, and [[partially ordered set|ordered sets]] amongst others. Zorn's lemma was first postulated by [[Kazimierz Kuratowski]] in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935.