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Issai Schur was a Russian mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life.!
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Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Tel Aviv, British Mandate for Palestine (now Israel)
Biography
Although Issai Schur was born in Mogilev on the Dnieper, he spoke German without a trace of an accent, and nobody even guessed that it was not his first language.He went to Latvia at the age of 13 and there he attended the Gymnasium in Libau, now called Liepaja.
In Schur entered the University of Berlin to read mathematics and physics. Frobenius was one of his teachers and he was to greatly influence Schur and later to direct his doctoral studies.
Frobenius and Burnside had been the two main founders of the theory of representations of groups as groups of matrices. This theory proved a very powerful tool in the study of groups and Schur was to learn the foundations