Mathematician:Ludwig August Paul Wernicke
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Mathematician
German, later American, mathematician who contributed to the Four Color Theorem.
Nationality
German, then American
History
- Born: 1 January 1866 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony
- 1873: Lived and schooled in Lisbon
- 1882: High school in Pforta
- 1889: Graduated from University of Berlin
- 1892: Moved to US
- 1898: Became naturalised American citizen
- Died:
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Ludwig August Paul Wernicke can be found here.
Publications
- 1897: On the Solution of the Map-Color Problem
- 1904: Über den kartographischen Vierfarbensatz (Math. Ann. Vol. 58, no. 3: pp. 413 – 426) (in which Wernicke's Theorem is presented)
- Feb. 1930: The Rectangular Hexagon (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 37, no. 2: pp. 59 – 63)
Also known as
Usually reported as Paul Wernicke.