Alfred Enneper (June 14, 1830,
Barmen – March 24, 1885
Hanover
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) was a German mathematician. Enneper earned his
PhD from the
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1856, under the supervision of
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (; 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician who made deep contributions to number theory (including creating the field of analytic number theory), and to the theory of Fourier series and ...
, for his dissertation about
functions with
complex
Complex commonly refers to:
* Complexity, the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways so possible interactions are difficult to describe
** Complex system, a system composed of many components which may interact with each ...
arguments.
[.] After his
habilitation in 1859 in Göttingen, he was from 1870 on Professor (Extraordinarius) at Göttingen.
He studied
minimal surface
In mathematics, a minimal surface is a surface that locally minimizes its area. This is equivalent to having zero mean curvature (see definitions below).
The term "minimal surface" is used because these surfaces originally arose as surfaces tha ...
s and
parametrized Enneper's minimal surfaces in 1864. A contemporary of
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (german: link=no, Weierstraß ; 31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics ...
, the two created a whole class of parameterizations, the
Enneper–Weierstrass parameterization.
[.]
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19th-century German mathematicians
1830 births
1885 deaths
University of Göttingen alumni
University of Göttingen faculty
Scientists from Wuppertal
Differential geometers
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