Blichfeldt

Hans Frederick Blichfeldt

Born: 9 Jan 1873 in Illar, Denmark
 Died: 16 Nov 1945 in Palo Alto, California, USA

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Hans Blichfeldt's family emigrated to the USA when he was 15. He returned to Europe to obtain a doctorate under Lie on transformation groups. His research was on group theory and number theory, covering many topics within these areas.

Blichfeldt wrote papers on the geometry of numbers and he has an important work Finite Collineation Groups . He co-authored Theory and Application of Finite Groups with G A Miller and Dickson.

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