Mathematician:Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow

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Mathematician

Ludwig Sylow was a Norwegian mathematician who established some important facts on the topic of subgroups of prime order.

After retiring from a career of schoolteaching he was appointed to a position as a University professor at the age of $65$.

His name is pronounced something like Soolof.


Nationality

Norwegian


History

  • Born: 12 December 1832, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
  • 1898: Appointed professor at Christiania University , where Sophus Lie had created a special chair for him
  • Died: 7 September 1918, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway


Theorems

Results named for Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow can be found here.


Publicatons

  • 1872: Théorèmes sur les Groupes de Substitutions (Math. Ann. Vol. 5: pp. 584 – 594)


Sources