Eduard Weyr

Eduard Weyr (June 22, 1852 – July 23, 1903) was a Czech mathematician now chiefly remembered as the discoverer of a certain canonical form for square matrices over algebraically closed fields.

[1][2] Weyr presented this form briefly in a paper published in 1885.

He received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1873 with dissertation Über algebraische Raumcurven.

[7] After a short spell in Paris studying under Charles Hermite and Joseph Alfred Serret, he returned to Prague where he eventually became a professor at Charles-Ferdinand University.

[1] In 1893 in Chicago, his paper Sur l'équation des lignes géodésiques was read (but not by him) at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.

Eduard Weyr