Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (born 1856)

Walther von Dyck

German mathematician (1856–1934)

Walther Franz Anton von Dyck, born Dyck and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in. He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory, being the first to systematically study a…