Mathematician:Paul Albert Gordan

Mathematician

German mathematician who worked in invariant theory and algebraic geometry.

Best known for his proof of his finite base theorem.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 27 April 1837 in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland)
• Died: 21 December 1912 in Erlangen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Gordan's Theorem
• Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients (with Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch)

Results named for Paul Albert Gordan can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Paul Albert Gordan can be found here.

Publications

• 1866: Theorie der Abelschen Funktionen (with Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Paul Albert Gordan": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gordan, Paul Albert (1837-1912)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gordan, Paul Albert (1837-1912)