- Arthur Moritz Schönflies
Arthur Moritz Schönflies (
April 17 ,1853 –May 27 ,1928 ) was a Germanmathematician , known for his contributions to the application ofgroup theory tocrystallography , and for work intopology .Schönflies was born in
Landsberg an der Warthe (modernGorzów , Poland). He studied underKummer andWeierstrass , and was influenced byFelix Klein .The "
Schönflies problem " is to prove that an ("n" − 1)-sphere in Euclidean "n"-space bounds a topological ball, however embedded. This question is much more subtle than initially appears.He studied at the
University of Berlin from 1870-1875. He obtained a doctorate in 1877, and in 1878 he was a teacher at a school in Berlin. In 1880, he went to Colmar to teach.He was a great-uncle of
Walter Benjamin .ee also
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Jordan-Schönflies theorem
*Schönflies symbol
*Schönflies displacement External links
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