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Ludwig Maurer (11 December 1859 – 10 January 1927) was a German
Ludwig Maurer (11 December 1859 – 10 January 1927) was a German 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.
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and professor at University of Tübingen
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. He was the eldest son of Konrad Maurer
Konrad Maurer, since 1876 Konrad von Maurer (April 29, 1823 – September 16, 1902) was a German legal historian. He was the son of legal historian and statesman Georg Ludwig von Maurer (1790–1872). Maurer is considered one of the most s ...
(1823–1902) and Valerie Maurer, née von Faulhaber (1833–1912). His 1887 dissertation at the University of Strassburg
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was on the theory of linear substitutions, known today as matrix group In mathematics, a matrix group is a group ''G'' consisting of invertible matrices over a specified field ''K'', with the operation of matrix multiplication. A linear group is a group that is isomorphic to a matrix group (that is, admitting a fait ...
s. A survey of his important contributions is contained in chapter V, §4 of .
See also
*Maurer–Cartan form In mathematics, the Maurer–Cartan form for a Lie group is a distinguished differential one-form on that carries the basic infinitesimal information about the structure of . It was much used by Élie Cartan as a basic ingredient of his me ...
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* 1859 births 1927 deaths 19th-century German mathematicians 20th-century German mathematicians {{Germany-mathematician-stub