Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

Mathematician, Academic

1849 – 1917

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Who was Ferdinand Georg Frobenius?

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations and to group theory. He is known for the famous determinantal identities, known as Frobenius-Stickelberger formulae, governing elliptic functions, and for developing the theory of biquadratic forms. He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions, and gave the first full proof for the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. He also lent his name to certain differential-geometric objects in modern mathematical physics, known as Frobenius manifolds.

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Born
Oct 26, 1849
Charlottenburg
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Georg-August University of Göttingen
Employment
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • ETH Zurich
Lived in
  • Berlin
Died
Aug 3, 1917
Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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