Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck (German pronunciation:[diːk][1]) and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in (Dyck 1882). He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory,[2] being the first to systematically study a group by generators and relations.
Biography
Von Dyck was a student of Felix Klein[2] and served as chairman of the commission publishing Klein's encyclopedia. Von Dyck was also the editor of Kepler's works. He promoted technological education as rector of the Technische Hochschule of Munich.[3] He was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome.[4]
Von Dyck is the son of the Bavarian painter Hermann Dyck.
^Pronunciation according to information from the Board of Management of the Technical University of Munich.
^ a bStillwell, John (2002), Mathematics and its history, Springer, p. 374, ISBN 978-0-387-95336-6
^Rowe, David E. (November 2008). "Review of Walther von Dyck (1856–1934). Mathematik, Technik und Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH München". Historia Mathematica. 35 (4): 333–334. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2008.08.002.
^Dyck, W. von (1909). "Die Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften". In G. Castelnuovo (ed.). Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). ICM proceedings. Vol. 1. University of Toronto Press. pp. 123–134.
^"Udacity CS262". Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
References
Ulf Hashagen: Walther von Dyck (1856–1934). Mathematik, Technik und Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH München, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08359-6