Paul Gordan

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Paul Gordan, 1837-1912

Paul Gordan ( Paul Albert Gordan ; born April 29, 1837 in Breslau , † December 21, 1912 in Erlangen ) was a German mathematician. He is known as the "King of the Invariant Theory ".

Life

Paul Gordan was born on April 29, 1837 as the son of the Jewish banker and fur trader David Gordon, later Gordan (born October 24, 1802 in Lublinitz , died October 21, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main ) and his wife Friederike Friedenthal in Breslau born. He initially trained in banking in Wroclaw, Geneva and Berlin . On July 21, 1855, when he was just 18 years old, he was baptized in Berlin. In 1855/56 he attended a lecture by Ernst Eduard Kummer on number theory in Berlin . After studying from 1857 to 1862 in Breslau , Königsberg and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , his doctorate in Berlin in 1862 and his habilitation in Gießen in 1863, he was an associate professor in Gießen from 1864, where he met Alfred Clebsch . With this he introduced the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients .

From 1874 he was initially an associate professor at the University of Erlangen and became friends with Felix Klein . In the same year 1874 Gordan was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1886 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian and since 1900 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1904 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences . From 1875 to 1910 he was a full professor in Erlangen, and in 1910 he retired. Gordan supervised the doctoral thesis of Emmy Noether , whose father Max Noether had also been a mathematics professor in Erlangen since 1875.

In 1894 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association .

Treatises (selection)

  • "About ternary forms of the third degree", Mathematische Annalen , Volume 1 (1869), p. 90
  • "The simultaneous systems of binary forms", Mathematische Annalen , Volume 2 (1870), p. 227
  • “On the resolution of linear equations with real coefficients”, Mathematische Annalen , Volume 6 (1873), p. 23

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Gordan's obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Paul Albert Gordan. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed March 30, 2015 .
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 19, 2019 (French).