In mathematics, the Schreier refinement theorem of group theory states that any two normal series of subgroups of a given group have equivalent refinements.
The theorem is named after the Austrian mathematician Otto Schreier who proved it in 1928. It provides an elegant proof of the Jordan–Hölder theorem.
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