Mathematician:Wilhelm Jordan

Mathematician
German geodesist who conducted surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal.

Remembered for Gauss-Jordan elimination, a version of Gaussian elimination with improved stability, for minimizing the squared error in the sum of a series of surveying observations.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 1 March 1842, Ellwangen, Württemberg
 * Died: 17 April 1899, Hanover

Theorems and Definitions

 * Gauss-Jordan Elimination (with )

Publications

 * 1888: Textbook of Geodesy (3rd edition) (in which Gauss-Jordan elimination appears)