Mathematician:Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder

Mathematician

German mathematician active mainly in the field of algebraic logic.

He is best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder Theorem.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 25 November 1841, Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden (now Germany)
• Died: 16 June 1902, Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden (now Germany)

Theorems and Definitions

• Schröder's Equation
• Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder Theorem (with Georg Cantor and Felix Bernstein) (also known as Bernstein-Schröder Theorem)
• Schröder Rule

Results named for Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder can be found here.

Publications

• 1862: Über die Vielecke von gebrochener Seitenzahl oder die Bedeutung der Stern-Polygone in der Geometrie
• 1871: Über iterirte Functionen
• 1874: Normale Elemente der absoluten Algebra
• 1877: Der Operationskreis des Logikkalküls
• 1890 - 1905: Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik, 3 vols
• 1898: Über zwei Definitionen der Endlichkeit und G. Cantor'sche Sätze

Also known as

Usually known as Ernst Schröder.

His name can also be rendered Schroeder.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1951: Willard Van Orman Quine: Mathematical Logic (revised ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction