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Ludwig Sylow

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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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Ludwig Sylow
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Sylow Theorems

Ludwig Sylow
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In Branch

Group Theory, Branches of Mathematics
Source MacTutor biography of Ludwig Sylow, St Andrews

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Sylow Theorems, Theorems
Source Sylow Theorems (Wikipedia)

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Sylow Theorems, Theorems
Source Sylow Theorems (Wikipedia)
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Norway

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Born 12 December 1832 Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
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1. MacTutor biography of Ludwig Sylow, St Andrews
  • Quick Info: Born
    12 December 1832
  • Summary
    Ludwig Sylow was a high school teacher who proved what is perhaps the most profound result in the theory of finite groups.
  • Biography
    He was interested in the advanced areas of mathematics and had little enthusiasm for teaching at lower levels.
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Sylow Theorems (Wikipedia)
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  • Principal Result: Sylow Theorems, Lead sentence of the article on the result
    In mathematics, specifically in the field of finite group theory, the Sylow theorems are a collection of theorems named after the Norwegian mathematician Peter Ludwig Sylow that give detailed information about the number of subgroups of fixed order that a given finite group contains.
  • Proofs Credited: Sylow Theorems, Article text
    The following theorems were first proposed and proven by Ludwig Sylow in 1872, and published in Mathematische Annalen.
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