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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

1849 - 1917

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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (26 October 1849 – 3 August 1917) was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory. He is known for the famous determinantal identities, known as Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae, governing elliptic functions, and for developing the theory of biquadratic forms. He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions (nowadays known as Padé approximants), and gave the first full proof for the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. He also lent his name to certain differential-geometric objects in modern mathematical physics, known as Frobenius manifolds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Georg Frobenius is the 259th most popular mathematician (down from 208th in 2019), the 1,420th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,254th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 259 out of 1,004. Before him are Paolo Ruffini, Theodorus of Cyrene, Constantin Carathéodory, Richard von Mises, Ibn Yunus, and Johannes de Sacrobosco. After him are Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Leo Perutz, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Aristyllus, Al-Khazini, and Eugène Charles Catalan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 26. Before him are Nogi Maresuke, Eva Gonzalès, John Ambrose Fleming, Max Nordau, Ellen Key, and Armand Peugeot. After him are Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Basil Zaharoff, Vera Zasulich, Lord Randolph Churchill, Paul Rée, and Joseph Gallieni. Among people deceased in 1917, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 27. Before him are Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Radomir Putnik, Frances Xavier Cabrini, Jean Gaston Darboux, Ranavalona III, and Léon Bloy. After him are Adolph Wagner, Hugo Simberg, Lucien Petit-Breton, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Maximilian von Prittwitz, and Manuel de Arriaga.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 1,420 out of 7,253. Before him are Axel Honneth (1949), Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), Wilhelm Groener (1867), Thea von Harbou (1888), and John B. Goodenough (1922). After him are Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Anna of Saxony (1544), Jens Lehmann (1969), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 29. Before him are Ernst Schröder (1841), Maria Reiche (1903), Thomas Abbt (1738), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), and Constantin Carathéodory (1873). After him are Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Michael Stifel (1487), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), and Wilhelm Ackermann (1896).

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