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Alfredo Capelli
Alfredo Capelli (1855–1910) was an Italian mathematician who held the algebra chair at the University of Naples and is known for the Capelli identity and the Rouché–Capelli theorem.
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903–1996) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics whose two-volume Moderne Algebra set the standard for twentieth-century abstract algebra.
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917) was a German mathematician at the University of Berlin who founded the character theory and representation theory of finite groups, with results named for him across group and matrix theory.
Heinrich Martin Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913) was a German mathematician who, with Dedekind, put algebraic curves on a rigorous footing, proved the Kronecker–Weber theorem, and wrote the Lehrbuch der Algebra.
Issai Schur
Issai Schur (1875–1941) was a German mathematician and founder of the Berlin School of algebra, a pioneer of group representation theory known for Schur's lemma and the Schur multiplier.
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell (1862–1924) was an Irish-born mathematician at Hertford College, Oxford, who began the Campbell–Baker–Hausdorff formula and introduced Lie's theory to Britain through his 1903 treatise.
Paul Gordan
Paul Albert Gordan was a German mathematician, known as the king of invariant theory, who proved the finiteness theorem for binary forms in 1868 and co-created the Clebsch–Gordan coefficients.
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832–1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the three Sylow theorems of finite group theory, published in 1872, and edited Abel's collected works.
Walther von Dyck
Walther von Dyck (1856–1934) was a German mathematician in Munich who founded combinatorial group theory in 1882, led the Technische Hochschule as its first rector, and co-founded the Deutsches Museum.