Mathematician:Jordan

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Jordan may refer to:

Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {1922}$$)$

French mathematician who founded much of the field of group theory.

Also wrote the influential textbook Cours d'Analyse.
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Wilhelm Jordan $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1899}$$)$

German geodeist 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.
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Dominic William Jordan $($$\text {c. 1928}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$

English self-taught mathematician who wrote textbooks after retiring from a career teaching mathematics in University.
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Jordan Stuart Ellenberg $($$\text {b. 1971}$$)$

American mathematician working mainly within arithmetic geometry.
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