ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
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German mathematician best known for his work on differential equations and group theory.
Gave the first full proof of the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem.
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Nationality
German
History
- Born: 26 Oct 1849 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Prussia (now Germany)
- Died: 3 Aug 1917 in Berlin, Germany
Theorems and Definitions
- Frobenius's Theorem
- Rouché-Frobenius Theorem (with Eugène Rouché) (although Frobenius merely discussed the result: priority actually goes to Georges Fontené)
- Cauchy-Frobenius Lemma (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)
- Frobenius-Schur Indicator (with Issai Schur) (otherwise known as Schur Indicator)
Books and Papers
- 1897: Über die Darstellung der endlichen Gruppen durch lineare Substitutionen (Sitzungsber., Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Vol. 1897: 994 – 1015)
