Ludwig Sylow was a Norwegian high school teacher who proved what is perhaps the most profound result in the theory of finite groups. He was born Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow in Christiania, now Oslo, on 12 December 1832, and died there on 7 September 1918. He was the eldest of ten children of Thomas Edvard Sylow, a cavalry captain who later became a government minister and from 1848 to 1854 was Minister and Chief of the Army Ministry, and of Magdalena Cecilie Cathrine Mejdell. Not all of the ten children reached adulthood: Sverre Thomas died as a baby, Halfdan at sixteen and Martin Kierulf at ten.
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Born 12 December 1832 Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
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Ludwig Sylow was a high school teacher who proved what is perhaps the most profound result in the theory of finite groups.
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He was interested in the advanced areas of mathematics and had little enthusiasm for teaching at lower levels.
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The following theorems were first proposed and proven by Ludwig Sylow in 1872, and published in Mathematische Annalen.
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