Schröder, (Friedrich Wilhelm Karl) Ernst
Schrder, (Friedrich Wilhelm Karl) Ernst
1841-1902. German mathematician. Professor of mathematics at Karlsruhe, 1876-1902. His three-volume Algebra der Logik (1890-1895, with a posthumous second part of vol. 2 published in 1905) is an able compendium and systematization of the work of his predecessors. With contributions of his own, and may be regarded as giving in nearly all essentials the final form of the Nineteenth Century algebra of logic (q.v.), including the algebra of relatives (or relations). — A.C.
J. Lroth. Ernst Schrder, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker- Vereinigung, vol. 12 (1903). pp. 249-265; reprinted in Schrder’s Algebra der Logik, vol. 2, part 2.