Mathematician:Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow

Ludwig Sylow was a Norwegian mathematician who established some important facts on the topic of subgroups of prime order.

His name is pronounced something like "Soolof".

Nationality
Norwegian

History

 * Born: 12 December 1832, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
 * Died: 7 September 1918, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway

Theorems

 * The Sylow Theorems.

Books and Papers

 * 1872: Théorèmes sur les Groupes de Substitutions