Walther von Dyck
Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck (German pronunciation: [diːk][1]) and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in (Dyck 1882). He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory,[2] being the first to systematically study a group by generators and relations.
Walther von Dyck
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6 December 1856
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
5 November 1934 (aged 77)
Munich, Nazi Germany
German
Über regulär verzweigte Riemannsche Flächen und die durch sie definierten Irrationalitäten (1879)
Legacy[edit]
The Dyck language in formal language theory is named after him,[5] as are Dyck's theorem and Dyck's surface in the theory of surfaces, together with the von Dyck groups, the Dyck tessellations, Dyck paths, and the Dyck graph.