Herman Valentiner

Herman Valentiner
Born(1850-05-08)8 May 1850
Gjorslev
Died17 September 1913(1913-09-17) (aged 63)
Copenhagen
NationalityDanish
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
Known forValentiner group
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Herman Valentiner (8 May 1850 – 17 September 1913) was a Danish mathematician who introduced the Valentiner group in 1889.

Valentiner earned his Ph.D. in 1881 from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on space curves, and took a teaching position. However, soon afterwards he moved to a Danish life insurance company.

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