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.