# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-von-dyck
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:55:54.047Z

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name: "Walther von Dyck"
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description: "Walther Franz Anton von Dyck, born Dyck and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in. He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory, being the first to systematically study a group by generators and relations."
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birthDate: "1856-12-06"
deathDate: "1934-11-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump