Petersen

Julius Peter Christian Petersen

Born: 16 June 1839 in Soro, Denmark
Died: 5 Aug 1910 in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Petersen wrote a series of school and undergraduate texts which achieved international acclaim despite being too difficult for all but the ablest pupils. His thesis treated equations soluble by square roots with applications to ruler and compass constructions.

His research was on a wide variety of topic from algebra and number theory to analysis and mechanics. His most important work however was in geometry and work on regular graphs. He is best remembered for the Petersen graph.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. H G Zeuthen, Obituary of Julius Petersen, Oversigt over det K Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger 1910 I (1910-11), 73-75.
  3. J Lützen, The mathematical correspondence between Julius Petersen and Ludwig Sylow, in S S Demidov et al. (eds), Amphora : Festschrift for Hans Wussing on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Basel- Boston- Berlin, 1992), 439-467. 
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