Georg Frobenius
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917) German mathematician, best known for being the first to prove the Cayley-Hamilton theorem
. Several different mathematical concepts now bear his name, including the Frobenius algebra, various Frobenius morphisms, the Frobenius map, the Frobenius group, the Frobenius inequality, etc.
Born in Charlottenburg, Frobenius earned a doctorate at the University of Berlin for his thesis on differential equations with Karl Weierstraß (http://planetmath.org/KarlWeierstrass) as his advisor. After that he taught mathematics in Berlin and Zürich, and researched group theory (proving the existence of Sylow groups) and number theory
. In the lead-up to World War I, Frobenius began investigating matrices. He died in Berlin in 1917 and was buried there.
| Title | Georg Frobenius |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | GeorgFrobenius |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 17:24:45 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 17:24:45 |
| Owner | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Last modified by | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Numerical id | 7 |
| Author | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A55 |
| Classification | msc 01A60 |
| Synonym | Ferdinand Georg Frobenius |