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What contribution has he made to mathematics?
When and where was he born?

2006-11-08 06:09:33 · 1 answers · asked by Juice 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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The following on Wilhelm Jordan came from Wikipedia. (I assume you meant Wilhelm.) You can hop around the links in the Wikipedia citation to get more information on the "Gauss-Jordan elimination algorithm" discussed in the article. I've been out of math classes for too long to understand it....

Wilhelm Jordan (1842–1899) was a German geodesist who did surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal.

He is remembered among mathematicians for the Gauss-Jordan elimination algorithm, with Jordan improving the stability of the algorithm so it could be applied to minimizing the squared error in surveying. This algebraic technique appeared in his Handbook of Geodesy (1873).

Not to be confused with the mathematician Camille Jordan, nor with the German physicist Pascual Jordan.

2006-11-08 06:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by Stuck in the Middle Ages 4 · 0 0

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