Carl Gottfried Franz Albert Kostka (3 December 1846 in
Lyck – 28 December 1921 in
Insterburg
Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of C ...
) was a mathematician who introduced
Kostka number
In mathematics, the Kostka number ''K''λμ (depending on two Partition (number theory), integer partitions λ and μ) is a non-negative integer that is equal to the number of semistandard Young tableaux of shape λ and weight μ. They were intro ...
s in 1882. He lived and worked in
Insterburg
Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of C ...
.
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Kostka polynomial
In mathematics, Kostka polynomials, named after the mathematician Carl Kostka, are families of polynomials that generalize the Kostka numbers. They are studied primarily in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory.
The two-variable Ko ...
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19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
1846 births
1921 deaths
People from Ełk
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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