Died 1918-09-07.
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Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Peter Ludvig Meidell Sylow was a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.
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Born 12 December 1832 · Died 7 September 1918 · Q320298
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1918· 1 entry
1902· 2 entries
Sylow gave the welcoming address at a conference to mark the centenary of his birth, giving a characterization of his predecessor, who was hailed by all the famous mathematicians of the various countries who had met toge
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Sylow, in collaboration with Elling Holst, published Abel's correspondence
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1898· 1 entry
And despite already being 65 when he obtained a university post, he was still able to hold this position for 20 years, until 1918, when he died at the age of 85
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1894· 1 entry
Studied at University of Copenhagen, Doctor (1894).
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1883· 1 entry
Sylow became an editor of Acta Mathematica, was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen and, in 1894, the University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate
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1881· 1 entry
And, at the Third Scandinavian Congress of Mathematicians, which was held in Kristiania in 1913, Sylow discussed this new material
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1873· 1 entry
Sylow and Lie were commissioned to provide a new edition of Niels Henrik Abel's collected works, paid for by the state
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1872· 2 entries
Sophus Lie took him on an excursion to Frognerseteren with Sylow, who described to him what is now called "Sylow's theorem", which he had known since 1862
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Called Théorèmes sur les groupes de substitutions (Theorems on substitution groups), which was published in Mathematische Annalen Volume 5 (pages 584 to 594)
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1870· 1 entry
Sylow was familiar with most of what was written there and more
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1869· 1 entry
Thus leaving a vacancy that Sylow was well qualified to have filled, and in fact, everyone expected Sylow to take over his professorship in pure mathematics
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1868· 3 entries
A corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1894
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Was elected into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Widenskaps-Akademi)
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Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1893)
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1862· 3 entries
But only published it in 1872, and by then, Augustin-Louis Cauchy had already proved that a group whose order is divisible by a prime p has a subgroup of order p
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That he began to further develop their innovative works, especially those related to group theory, and in fact, by the end of that year, Sylow had already proved foundational results in group theory, which are now known
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Sylow lectured at the University of Christiania as a substitute for Professor Ole Jacob Broch, who had been elected to serve in the Storting, the Norwegian parliament
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1861· 2 entries
And then spent a year doing the mathematical lectures at the Christiania University during Broch's absence abroad, during which he also began to treat and lecture Galois' group theory
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Sylow obtained a scholarship for studies in Paris and Berlin
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1860· 1 entry
In Copenhagen, where he presented a solid interpretation of a strange equation-theoretic treatise by Abel, edited only in fragments
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1858· 1 entry
Sylow moved to the town of Fredrikshald (now called Halden) in Østfold county, where he taught at Fredrikshald Latin School (Norwegian: Fredrikshalds lærde og realskole) as the Head Teacher in Mathematics and Science, a
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1856· 3 entries
But since no university post was available, he taught for two years at Hartvig Nissen School, an independent girls' school in the Uranienborg district of Christiania, which had been founded by Hartvig Nissen and Ole Jaco
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Took the high school mathematics teacher's examination (Realkandidat, Norwish to Real candidate) with excellent grades
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Studied at University of Oslo (1850–1856).
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1853· 1 entry
The University of Oslo awarded him the Crown Prince's gold medal (Kronprinsens gullmedalje) for a Mathematics subject about Gnomonics
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1850· 1 entry
Studied at Oslo Cathedral School (1850).
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-12-12.
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