Paul Gordan
Paul Gordan · Science & Medicine
Invariant theory; the 'king of invariant theory'
1837, Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1912, Erlangen, Germany
Germany
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Gordan was a German mathematician called the 'king of invariant theory' for his computational mastery of algebraic invariants, and he proved the finiteness of invariants for binary forms (the Clebsch-Gordan work bears his name in physics). He famously resisted Hilbert's abstract existence proof in the field. He was Jewish.
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Invariant theory; the 'king of invariant theory'
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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