Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory. He is known for the famous determinantal identities, known as Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae, governing elliptic functions, and for developing the theory of biquadratic forms. He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions, and gave the first full proof for the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. He also lent his name to certain differential-geometric objects in modern mathematical physics, known as Frobenius manifolds.
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (died 1917)
On October 26, in the year 1849, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (died 1917). This event is recorded as a Notable Births event in the history of October 26, one of 445 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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