{{Short description|Danish mathematician (1850–1913)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Herman Valentiner | image = Das Fotoalbum für Weierstraß 049 (Herman Valentiner).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|05|08|df=y}} | birth_place = Gjorslev | death_date = {{Death date and age|1913|09|17|1850|05|08|df=y}} | death_place = Copenhagen | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = | alma_mater = University of Copenhagen | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Valentiner group | awards = }} '''Herman Valentiner''' (8 May 1850 – 17 September 1913) was a Danish mathematician who introduced the Valentiner group in 1889.<ref>{{Citation | last1=Valentiner | first1=H. | title=De endelige Transformations-gruppers Theori | url=https://archive.org/details/deendeligetrans00valegoog | publisher=Bianco Lunos | language=Danish | year=1889 | journal=Videnkabernes Selskabs Skrifter | volume=6}}.</ref>

Valentiner earned his Ph.D. in 1881 from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on space curves, and took a teaching position. However, soon afterwards he moved to a Danish life insurance company.<ref>{{citation |jfm=44.0034.07 |title=Nécrologie. H. Valentiner |language=French |year=1913 |journal=L'Enseignement Mathématique |volume=15 |page=513 |url=http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/view?rid=ensmat-001:1913:15::828&id=hitlist |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406171514/http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/view?rid=ensmat-001%3A1913%3A15%3A%3A828&id=hitlist |archivedate=2012-04-06 }}.</ref>

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==Further reading== *{{citation| title=Herman Valentiner, Født 8. Maj 1850 - død 17. Sept. 1913 | last=Juel|first= C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9dPQwAACAAJ |year=1913 |pages=65–69|journal=Nyt Tidsskr. For Mat. B |volume=24}} *{{citation|first=H. G.|last= Zeuthen|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/18/0207.html |title=Herman Valentiner|publisher= Dansk biografisk Lexikon}}

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