Schönflies

Arthur Moritz Schönflies

Born: 17 April 1853 in Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany (now Gorzów, Poland)
Died: 27 May 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Schönflies was a student at Berlin where he obtained a doctorate in 1877 working under Kummer and Weierstrass. He taught in Berlin, Colmar, Göttingen, Königsberg and Frankfurt.

Schönflies worked on set theory and crystallography. Klein suggested the problem of finding the crystallographic space groups in the late 1880's. By 1891 he had found the complete list of 230 such groups. His presentation of crystallographic space groups published in 1892 used the latest aspects of group theory and became a classic on the subject.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. L Bieberbach, Arthur Schönflies, Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker vereinigung 32 (1923), 1-6. 
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