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THE death of Ludvig Sylow (September 7, 1918), at the age of eighty-five, has removed an eminent mathematician, whose career was in many ways remarkable. Sylow's seventh published paper (“Théorèmes sur les groupes de substitutions”) occupies less than ten pages in vol. v. of the Mathematische Annalen (1872); this contains the proof of his justly celebrated theorem about groups, which has perhaps done more than any other single proposition to advance our knowledge of groups in general. In spite of this great achievement, Sylow had to earn his living as a secondary-school teacher until he had served a term of forty years. Recognition came at last; he was made professor at Christiania at the age of sixty-five, and filled the chair successfully for twenty years.
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M., G. Ludvig Sylow . Nature 103, 49 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103049a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103049a0