Eduard Weyr
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Eduard Weyr (22 June 1852 – 23 July 1903) was a Czech mathematician. Today he is chiefly remembered as the discoverer of a certain canonical form for square matrices over algebraically closed fields.[1][2] Weyr presented this form briefly in a paper published in 1885.[3] He followed it up with a more elaborate treatment in a paper published in 1890.[4] This particular canonical form has been named as the Weyr canonical form in a paper by Shapiro published in The American Mathematical Monthly in 1999.[5] Previously, this form has been variously called as modified Jordan form, reordered Jordan form, second Jordan form, and H-form.[6]
