Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (born December 12, 1832 in Christiania, today Oslo ; † September 7, 1918 ibid) was a Norwegian mathematician who wrote fundamental work on group theory .
Sylow studied at the University of Oslo (then: University Christiania) and won a mathematics competition in 1853. From 1858 to 1898 he taught at the Fredrikshald School . In 1862 he was a substitute lecturer at the University of Christiania, where he taught Galois theory .
He proved the three Sylow theorems named after him in 1872.
Together with Sophus Lie , Sylow revised the entire work of Niels Henrik Abel between 1873 and 1881 . According to Lie, Sylow had done most of the work.
In 1883 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
In 1894 Sylow became editor of Acta Mathematica and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen . Lie set up his own chair for Sylow at Christiania University in 1898.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- ML Sylow: Théorème sur les groupes de substitutions . In: Mathematical Annals . 5, 1872, pp. 584-594.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 237.
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| SURNAME | Sylow, Peter Ludwig Mejdell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiania, today Oslo |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1918 |
| Place of death | Christiania, today Oslo |