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Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan

The life of Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan - The civil engineer who built modern mathematics


Jordan Curve Theorem

Every simple closed curve divides the plane into an 'inside' region and an 'outside' region.

\[ \mathbb{R}^2 \setminus C = A \cup B \]

Jordan Normal Form

A block diagonal matrix representation of a linear operator.

\[ J = P^{-1}AP = \text{diag}(J_1, J_2, \dots, J_k) \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jordan/

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