Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?
He worked it out with a pencil.
Camille JordanDied 20 Jan 1922 at age 84 (born 5 Jan 1838). French mathematician and engineer whoprepareda foundation for group theory and built on the prior work of Évariste Galois. As a mathematician, Jordan's interests were diverse, covering topics throughout the aspects of mathematics being studied in his era. The topics in his published works include finite groups, linear and multilinear algebra, the theory of numbers, topology of polyhedra, differential equations, and mechanics. |
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