Issai Schur conducted a seminar and posed a problem in 1921 that Alfred and Richard worked on together, and published a result.

Richard wrote his thesis under Schur, providing an algebraic approach to irreducible, continuous, finite-dimensional representations of real orthogonal (rotation) groups.

Brauer began his teaching career in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) working as Konrad Knopp’s assistant.

When the Nazi Party took over in 1933, the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars took action to help Brauer and other Jewish scientists.

[1] Ilse followed the next year with George and Fred; brother Alfred made it to the United States in 1939, but their sister Alice was killed in the Holocaust.

Robert Steinberg, Stephen Arthur Jennings, and Ralph Stanton were also Brauer’s students in Toronto.

The following year he visited the Institute for Advanced Study and Bloomington, Indiana where Emil Artin was teaching.

[4] The Brauers frequently traveled to see their friends such as Reinhold Baer, Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski, and Carl Ludwig Siegel.

[5] He applied modular representation theory to obtain subtle information about group characters, particularly via his three main theorems.

As it turned out, when Brauer had his manuscript prepared in Toronto in 1936, though it was accepted for publication, politics and war intervened.