Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow

Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (IPA: [ ˈsyːlɔv]) (12 December 1832 – 7 September 1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.[1]

This article is about the Norwegian mathematician. For his theorems in finite group theory, see Sylow theorems.
Ludwig Sylow

Biography

He was born and died in Christiania (now Oslo). Sylow was a son of government minister Thomas Edvard von Westen Sylow, and a brother of military officer and sports official Carl Sylow. He attended Christiania Cathedral School (1850) and the University of Christiania (cand.real. 1856) .[2]

Sylow was a high school teacher at Hartvig Nissen School, later before becoming a headmaster in Halden from 1858 to 1898. He was a substitute lecturer at University of Christiania in 1862, covering Galois theory. It was then that he posed the question that led to his theorems regarding Sylow subgroups. Sylow published the Sylow theorems in 1872, and subsequently devoted eight years of his life, with Sophus Lie, to the project of editing the mathematical works of his countryman, Niels Henrik Abel. In 1898, he was appointed professor at the University of Christiania.[3][4]

In 1853, he was awarded the Crown Prince's gold medal (Kronprinsens gullmedalje) by the University of Oslo. In 1894 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. [5]

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References
  1. Birkeland, Bent. "Ludvig Sylow". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  2. Brinchmann, Christopher; Daae, Anders; Hammer, K. V., eds. (1912). "Sylow, Peter Ludwig Mejdell". Hvem er Hvem? Haandbog over samtidige norske mænd og kvinder (in Norwegian) (1 ed.). Kristiania: Aschehoug. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  3. O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. "Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow". School of Mathematics and Statistics. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  4. Birkeland, Bent. "Ludvig Sylow". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  5. "Student Peter Ludvig Meydell Sylow". University of Oslo. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
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