Eduard Weyr
Eduard Weyr (June 22, 1852 – July 23, 1903) was a Czech mathematician now chiefly remembered as the discoverer of a certain canonical form for square matrices over algebraically closed fields.[1][2] Weyr presented this form briefly in a paper published in 1885.[3] He followed it up with a more elaborate treatment in a paper published in 1890.[4] This particular canonical form has been named as the Weyr canonical form in a paper by Shapiro published in The American Mathematical Monthly in 1999.[5] Previously, this form has been variously called as modified Jordan form, reordered Jordan form, second Jordan form, and H-form.[6]
Eduard's father was a mathematician at a secondary school in Prague and his older brother Emil Weyr was also a mathematician. Eduard studied at Prague Polytechnic and Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He received his doctorate from Göttingen in 1873 with dissertation Über algebraische Raumcurven.[7] After a short spell in Paris studying under Hermite and Serret, he returned to Prague where he eventually became a professor at Charles-Ferdinand University. Eduard also published research in geometry, in particular projective and differential geometry.[1] In 1983 in Chicago, his paper Sur l'équation des lignes géodésiques was read (but not by him) at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.[8]
Weyr canonical form
The image shows an example of a general Weyr matrix consisting of two blocks each of which is a basic Weyr matrix. The basic Weyr matrix in the top-left corner has the structure (4,2,1) and the other one has the structure (2,2,1,1).
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