"A queer fellow, impulsive and one-sided. A great walker and talker - he liked that kind of walk to which frequent stops at a beer-garden or a cafe belong. Either with friends, and then accompanying his discussions with violent gesticulations, completely irrespective of his surroundings; or alone, and then murmuring to himself and pondering over mathematical problems; or if in an idler mood, carrying out long numerical calculations by heart. There always remained something of the eternal "Bursche" of the 1848 type about him – an air of dressing gown, beer and tobacco, relieved however by a keen sense of humor and a strong dash of wit. When he had to listen to others, in classrooms or at meetings, he was always half asleep."
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Paul Gordan
Paul Albert Gordan (27 April 1837 – 21 December 1912) was a Jewish-German mathematician, a student of Carl Jacobi at the University of Königsberg before obtaining his PhD at the University of Breslau (1862), and a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Often called "king of invariant theory".
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