Mathematician:Wilhelm Jordan
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Mathematician
German geodeist who conducted surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal.
Remembered for Gauss-Jordan elimination, a version of Gaussian elimination with improved stability, for minimizing the squared error in the sum of a series of surveying observations.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 1 March 1842, Ellwangen, Württemberg
- Died: 17 April 1899, Hanover
Theorems and Definitions
Definitions of concepts named for Wilhelm Jordan can be found here.
Publications
- 1888: Textbook of Geodesy (3rd edition) (in which Gauss-Jordan elimination appears)
Sources
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gauss-Jordan elimination