Georg Frobenius
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917) German mathematician, best known for being the first to prove the Cayley-Hamilton theorem![]()
. Several different mathematical concepts now bear his name, including the Frobenius algebra, various Frobenius morphisms, the Frobenius map, the Frobenius group, the Frobenius inequality, etc.
Born in Charlottenburg, Frobenius earned a doctorate at the University of Berlin for his thesis on differential equations![]()
with Karl Weierstraß (http://planetmath.org/KarlWeierstrass) as his advisor. After that he taught mathematics in Berlin and Zürich, and researched group theory (proving the existence of Sylow groups) and number theory
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. In the lead-up to World War I, Frobenius began investigating matrices. He died in Berlin in 1917 and was buried there.