Fritz Peter

{{short description|German mathematician}}

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Fritz Peter (1899–1949) was a German mathematician who helped prove the Peter–Weyl theorem. He was a student of Hermann Weyl, and later became headmaster of a secondary school {{harv|Hawkins|2000|loc=p.502}}.

Publications

{{citation|first1=F.|last1=Peter|first2=H.|last2=Weyl|title=Die Vollständigkeit der primitiven Darstellungen einer geschlossenen kontinuierlichen Gruppe|journal=Math. Ann.|volume=97|year=1927|pages=737–755|doi=10.1007/BF01447892}}.

References

{{Citation | last1=Hawkins | first1=Thomas | title=Emergence of the theory of Lie groups | url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=978-0-387-98963-1 | publisher=Springer-Verlag | location=Berlin, New York | series=Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences | isbn=978-0-387-98963-1 | mr=1771134 | year=2000}}

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Category:20th-century German mathematicians

Category:1949 deaths

Category:1899 births

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