Netto

Eugen Otto Erwin Netto

Born: 30 June 1848 in Halle, Germany
Died: 13 May 1919 in Giessen, Germany

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Netto studied at Berlin obtaining his doctorate in 1870 working under Weierstrass and Kummer. He then taught in Strasbourg, Berlin and Giessen. In 1878 he attempted the second general proof of the invariance of 'dimension' but, like the first by Thomae, it was not completely satisfactory.

Netto made major steps towards abstract group theory when, in 1882, he combined permutation group results and groups in number theory. He did not however include matrix groups! He further contributed to the development of group theory in other papers.

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  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. W Lorey, Die Mathematiker an der Universität Giessen vom Beginn des 19 Jahrhunderts bis 1914, Nachrichten der Giessener Hochschulgesellschaft 11 (1937), 54-97. 
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