Paul Albert Gordan
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Paul Albert Gordan (April 27, 1837 – December 21, 1912) was a German mathematician, a student of Carl Jacobi at the University of Breslau (1862)[1] and a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
He was known as "the king of invariant theory".[2][3] His most famous result is that the ring of invariants of binary forms of fixed degree is finitely generated.[3] He and Alfred Clebsch gave their name to Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. Gordan also served as the thesis advisor for Emmy Noether.[1]
Gordan described a proof of David Hilbert's in invariant theory, saying "This is not mathematics; this is theology."[2]
He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław Poland), and died in Erlangen, Germany.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Paul Albert Gordan at the website of the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ a b Derkson, Harm & Kemper, Gregor, eds., Computational Invariant Theory, Invariant theory and algebraic transformation groups, Springer-Verlag, p. 49, ISBN 3540434763.
- ^ a b Kolmogorov, A. N. & Yushkevich, A. P., eds. (2001), Mathematics of the 19th Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory, Springer-Verlag, p. 85, ISBN 3764364424.
- Noether, Max (1914), “Paul Gordan”, Mathematische Annalen 75 (1): 1–41, DOI 10.1007/BF01564521.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Paul Albert Gordan”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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