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Paul Albert Gordan

Biography MathSciNet

Dr. phil. Universität Breslau 1862

Dissertation: De Linea Geodetica, (On Geodesics of Spheroids)

Mathematics Subject Classification: 51—Geometry

Advisor: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Wilhelm Hauser	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	1907
Emmy Noether	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	1907	991

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