Mathematician:Jakob Nielsen
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Mathematician
Danish mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces.
Nationality
Danish
History
- Born: 15 October 1890 in Mjels, Als, Schleswig (now Denmark)
- Died: 3 August 1959 in Elsinore, Denmark
Theorems and Definitions
- Nielsen Realization Problem
- Nielsen-Schreier Theorem (with Otto Schreier)
- Dehn-Nielsen Theorem (with Max Wilhelm Dehn)
Results named for Jakob Nielsen can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Jakob Nielsen can be found here.
Publications
- 2003: Discontinuous groups of isometries in the hyperbolic plane (with Moritz Werner Fenchel)