Moufang is the family name of the following people:
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Christoph Moufang
Franz Christoph Ignaz Moufang (17 February 1817 – 27 February 1890) was a German Catholic theologian and diocesan administrator.
Life Education
Moufang was born at Mainz, where he also received his primary education. In 1834 he entered the ...
(1817–1890), a Roman Catholic cleric
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Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang (10 January 1905 – 26 November 1977) was a German mathematician.
Biography
Born to German chemist Eduard Moufang and Else Fecht Moufang. Eduard Moufang was the son of Friedrich Carl Moufang (1848-1885) from Mainz, and Elisab ...
(1905–1977), a German mathematician, after whom several concepts in mathematics are named:
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Moufang–Lie algebra
In mathematics, a Malcev algebra (or Maltsev algebra or Moufang–Lie algebra) over a field is a nonassociative algebra that is antisymmetric, so that
:xy = -yx
and satisfies the Malcev identity
:(xy)(xz) = ((xy)z)x + ((yz)x)x + ((zx)x)y.
Th ...
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Moufang loop Moufang is the family name of the following people:
*Christoph Moufang (1817–1890), a Roman Catholic cleric
*Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), a German mathematician, after whom several concepts in mathematics are named:
** Moufang–Lie algebra
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Moufang polygon In mathematics, Moufang polygons are a generalization by Jacques Tits of the Moufang planes studied by Ruth Moufang, and are irreducible buildings of rank two that admit the action of root groups.
In a book on the topic, Tits and Richard Weiss clas ...
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Moufang plane
In geometry, a Moufang plane, named for Ruth Moufang, is a type of projective plane, more specifically a special type of translation plane. A translation plane is a projective plane that has a ''translation line'', that is, a line with the property ...
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David Moufang
David Moufang (born 1966, in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German ambient techno musician. He records with his partner, Jonas Grossmann as Deep Space Network project and his solo releases as Move D.Profileat Allmusic guide His other projects inc ...
(born 1966), German ambient techno musician
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