Max Gut


Max Gut was a Swiss mathematician, specializing in algebraic number theory and group theory.
After completing his secondary education at the canton school in Zürich, Gut spent one semester studying law and business at the University of Geneva, but then followed his inclinations to study mathematics. He studied mathematics at the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich and then spent a year studying theoretical physics in Berlin. He received his promotion in 1924 from the University of Zürich under Rudolf Fueter. Gut received his habilitation qualification in the summer of 1929 from the University of Zürich, and was appointed there Titularprofessor in 1938.
Gut served a two-year term from 1946 to 1947 as president of the Swiss Mathematical Society. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1932 at Zürich and in 1936 at Oslo.

Selected publications