Mathematician:Friedrich Engel

Mathematician

German mathematician specialising in partial differential equations.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 26 December 1861 in Lugau (near Chemnitz), Saxony (now Germany)
• Died: 29 September 1941 in Giessen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Engel Condition
• Engel Element
• Engel Group
• Engel Expansion
• Engel's Theorem

Results named for Friedrich Engel can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Friedrich Engel can be found here.

Publications

• 1888 -- 1893: Theorie der Transformationsgruppen (Theory of transformation groups) (with Sophus Lie):
  • 1888: Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, Volume I
  • 1890: Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, Volume II
  • 1893: Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, Volume III

• 1913: Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Friedrich Engel": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1974: Robert Gilmore: Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and Some of their Applications ... (previous) ... (next): Preface