Author: Holger P. Petersson
Holger P. Petersson is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. He has published on non-associative algebras, especially Albert algebras, over the course of his whole career, and is the author of a key survey on Albert algebras over fields of arbitrary characteristic, which was a starting point for this book. He co-wrote the monograph 'Descent in Buildings' with Bernhard Mühlherr and Richard Weiss.