Role Mathematician Alma mater University of Vienna Residence Austria | Known for Zsigmondy's theorem Fields Mathematics Name Karl Zsigmondy | |
Nationality Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria Died October 14, 1925, Vienna, Austria Education Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Vienna | ||
Institutions University of Vienna | ||
Karl Zsigmondy ([ˈʒiɡmondi]) (27 March 1867 – 14 October 1925) was an Austrian mathematician of Hungarian ethnicity. He was a son of Adolf Zsigmondy from Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) and his mother was Irma von Szakmáry of Martonvásár, Kingdom of Hungary.
He studied (1886–1890) and worked (1894–1925) at the University of Vienna. After his PhD, in 1890, he studied at the University of Berlin, University of Göttingen and at the Sorbonne in Paris, but came back to Vienna in 1894. He discovered Zsigmondy's theorem in 1882.
He was the brother of the mountain climber Emil Zsigmondy and the Nobel Laureate chemist Richard Adolf Zsigmondy.
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