Herman Valentiner (8 May 1850 – 17 September 1913) was a Danish
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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who introduced the
Valentiner group in 1889.
Valentiner earned his
Ph.D.
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in 1881 from the
University of Copenhagen
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with a thesis on
space curves, and took a teaching position. However, soon afterwards he moved to a Danish
life insurance
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company.
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Danish mathematicians
1850 births
1913 deaths