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THE death of Paul Gordan, which occurred on December 21, has removed a mathematician of pre-eminent rank in his own particular field. When the calculus of invariants and co-variants was started it was taken up with great vigour in Germany, and very important developments were effected by Aronhold, Clebsch, and Gordan respectively. Aronhold invented the symbolical method, Clebsch gave brilliant applications of it to geometry, and Gordan, besides collaborating with Clebsch, wrote numerous papers on the purely algebraic part of the theory.
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M. Paul Gordan . Nature 90, 597 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090597a0
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