Ernst Jacobsthal
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1882 – 1965
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Who was Ernst Jacobsthal?
Ernst Erich Jacobsthal was a German mathematician, and brother to the archaeologist Paul Jacobsthal.
In 1906, he earned his PhD at the University of Berlin, where he was a student of Georg Frobenius, Hermann Schwarz and Issai Schur; his dissertation, Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste, provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers.
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- Born
- Oct 16, 1882
Berlin - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Died
- Feb 6, 1965
Überlingen
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on July 23, 2013
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