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.