Ludwig Stickelberger

Ludwig Stickelberger
Ludwig Stickelberger
Born	18 May 1850 Buch, Schaffhausen;
Died	11 April 1936 (1936-04-12) (aged 85) Basel
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg University of Berlin
Known for	Stickelberger relation Frobenius–Stickelberger theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Freiburg
Thesis	De problemate quodam ad duarum bilinearium vel quadraticarum transformationem pertinente (1874)
Doctoral advisor	Ernst Kummer, Karl Weierstrass

Ludwig Stickelberger (18 May 1850 – 11 April 1936) was a Swiss mathematician who made important contributions to linear algebra (theory of elementary divisors) and algebraic number theory (Stickelberger relation in the theory of cyclotomic fields).