For the composer, see Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer

Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer

Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer was a German composer, conductor, and violinist born in Potsdam. In 1802, he debuted in Berlin with his first major violin performance. After a brief period of studying French violin style in Mitau , Maurer went to Russia at age 17 in 1806, where he would stay for most of...

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Ludwig Maurer (1859 – 1927) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

 professor on the Tübingen University. He was the eldest son of Konrad von Maurer

Konrad von Maurer

Konrad Maurer, since 1876 Konrad von Maurer was a German legal historian. He was the son of legal historian and statesman Georg Ludwig von Maurer...

 (1823-1902) and Valerie von Faulhaber (1833-1912). His 1887 dissertation at the University of Strassburg was on the theory of linear substitutions, known today as matrix group

Matrix group

In mathematics, a matrix group is a group G consisting of invertible matrices over some field K, usually fixed in advance, with operations of matrix multiplication and inversion. More generally, one can consider n × n matrices over a commutative ring R...

s. A survey of his important contributions are contained in chapter V, §4 of .