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Encyclopedia > Walther Franz Anton von Dyck

Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (December 6, 1856 - November 5, 1934) was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense. He made important contributions to combinatorial group theory.


He was also the editor of Kepler's works.


External link

MacTutor biography (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Von_Dyck.html)


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Walther von Dyck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (115 words)
Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (December 6, 1856 - November 5, 1934) was a German mathematician.
He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense.
The Dyck language in formal language theory is named after him.
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Von Dyck stressed how important a basic knowledge in mathematics was to engineers and he worked hard to construct a consistent course to include varied topics.
Not only was von Dyck one of the three to establish and develop the museum in its early stages, but he was also appointed as the second Director of the Museum in 1906.
Von Dyck made important contributions to function theory, group theory (where a fundamental result on group presentations is named after him), topology (where he was influenced by the work of Riemann), and to potential theory.
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