Eugene Netto

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Eugene Netto

Eugen Otto Erwin Netto (born June 30, 1846 in Halle ; † May 13, 1919 in Gießen ) was a German mathematician who dealt with combinatorics and group theory.

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Netto's father was employed by the Francke Foundation in Halle. Netto went to school in Halle and Berlin . From 1866 he studied mathematics at the University of Berlin with Leopold Kronecker , Karl Weierstraß and Ernst Eduard Kummer . He graduated in 1870 and received his doctorate from Weierstraß. He then taught at a grammar school in Berlin before becoming an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1879 . In 1882 he became associate professor in Berlin and in 1888 professor at the University of Giessen . In 1913 he retired.

Netto worked on group theory, among other things, where he gave a new proof of Sylow's theorems . He is known for early textbooks on combinatorics and group theory. He wrote the chapters on combinatorics, probability theory, series, and imaginary in the fourth volume of the lectures on the history of mathematics by Moritz Cantor (1908), which deals with the 18th century.

In 1879 he proved that the bijective mapping of the unit interval onto the unit square by Georg Cantor could not be continuous.

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SURNAME Netto, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Netto, Otto Erwin Eugen; Netto, Eugenius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1919
Place of death to water