Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix (20 February 1798 – 14 February 1870) was a German mathematician and engineer.Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, volume 3 (1876), p. 335: Brix: Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus B.
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(°Bx), is named after him. Brix made a career as a civil servant in professions related to civil engineering, measurements and manufacture (1827 ''Bauconducteur'', 1834 ''Fabriken-Commisionsrath'', 1853 ''geheimer Regierungsrath'') and retired in 1866 (when he was promoted to ''geheimer Oberregierungsrath''). He was director of the Royal Prussian Commission for Measurements, member of a technical committee in the Ministry of Trade, and the technical building committee. He was also a teacher of applied mathematics at ''Gewerbeinstitut zu Berlin'' (1828–1850), as well as in higher analysis and applied mathematics at the

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, both of which are forerunners of the

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. He participated in many public works in Berlin and Potsdam.

Selected publications

* ''Lehrbuch der Statik und Mechanik'' ("Textbook of statics and mechanics", 1831, 2nd edition 1849, supplement 1843) * ''Über Festigkeit und Elasticität der Eisendrähte'' ("On the strength and elasticity of iron wires"), 1847 * ''Über den Widerstand der Fuhrwerke'' ("On the drag of wagons"), 1850 * ''Über Alkoholometrie'' ("On the measurement of alcohol"), 1850, 1851, 1856

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brix, Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus 19th-century German mathematicians 19th-century German engineers Technical University of Berlin faculty 1798 births 1870 deaths Engineers from Wesel