Mathematician:Walther Franz Anton von Dyck

Walther Franz Anton von Dyck was a German mathematician who was one of the pioneers of group theory.

He was originally known as Walther Dyck: the von was added later when he was ennobled.

The first to define a group in the abstract sense. The first to study a group by generators.

A student of Felix Klein.

Nationality
Bavarian

History

 * Born: 6 Dec 1856, Munich, Germany (then Bavaria)
 * Died: 5 Nov 1934, Munich, Germany

Theorems

 * Dyck Language
 * Dyck's Theorem
 * Dyck's Surface
 * Von Dyck Groups
 * Dyck Tessellations
 * Dyck Graph

Books and Papers

 * 1879: Über regulär verzweigte Riemannsche Flächen und die durch sie definierten Irrationalitäten
 * 1882: Gruppentheoretische Studien (Group-theoretical Studies)

Also see

 * : $\S 2$: Summary